LEADER 04021cam a2200457 i 4500001 99129146718706421 005 20240502073706.0 007 ta 008 200207t20212021enka b 001 0 eng d 019 124910391512627495751262795566 020 9781472966421 |q(hardback) 020 1472966422 |q(hardback) 020 9781472966438 |q(paperback) : |c$18.00 020 1472966430 |q(paperback) 035 (OCoLC)on1139353269 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dBDX |dOCLCQ |dYDX |dUKMGB |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dYDXIT |dTOH |dMNN |dIAD |dIBI |dOCLCO |dOCLCQ |dMLSOD |dMNN |dNYP |dBKL |dOCLCO |dOCLCL 050 4 QP360.5 |b.L56 2021 050 4 QP357.5 |b.L56 2021 082 04 612.8233 |223 100 1 Lindsay, Grace |c(Computational neuroscientist), |eauthor. |1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjvMkWKrm8hQDRMD9yCBWC 245 10 Models of the mind : |bhow physics, engineering and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain / |cGrace Lindsay. 264 1 London ;New York : |bBloomsbury Sigma, |c2021 264 4 |c©2021 300 400 pages : |billustrations (black and white) ; |c22 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 336 still image |bsti |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 0 Bloomsbury Sigma series 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Spherical cows -- How neurons got their spike -- Learning to compute -- Making and maintaining memories -- Excitation and inhibition -- Stages of sight -- Cracking the neural code -- Movement in low dimensions -- From structure to function -- Making rational decisions -- How rewards guide actions -- Grand unified theories of the brain. 520 "The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For over a century, a diverse array of researchers have been trying to find a language that can be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate - and how those communications create thoughts, perceptions and actions. The language they were looking for was mathematics, and we would not be able to understand the brain as we do today without it. In Models of the Mind, author and computational neuroscientist Grace Lindsay explains how mathematical models have allowed scientists to understand and describe many of the brain's processes, including decision-making, sensory processing, quantifying memory, and more. She introduces readers to the most important concepts in modern neuroscience, and highlights the tensions that arise when bringing the abstract world of mathematical modelling into contact with the messy details of biology. Each chapter focuses on mathematical tools that have been applied in a particular area of neuroscience, progressing from the simplest building block of the brain - the individual neuron - through to circuits of interacting neurons, whole brain areas and even the behaviors that brains command. Throughout Grace will look at the history of the field, starting with experiments done on neurons in frog legs at the turn of the twentieth century and building to the large models of artificial neural networks that form the basis of modern artificial intelligence. She demonstrates the value of describing the machinery of neuroscience using the elegant language of mathematics, and reveals in full the remarkable fruits of this endeavor."--Amazon.com 650 0 Computational neuroscience. 650 0 Brain |xMathematical models. 650 6 Neurosciences informatiques. 650 7 SCIENCE |xLife Sciences |xAnatomy & Physiology. |2bisacsh 650 7 Brain |xMathematical models |2fast 650 7 Computational neuroscience |2fast 776 08 |iElectronic version:Lindsay, Grace. |tModels of the mind. |dLondon : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021 |z9781472966452 |w(OCoLC)1240720198 902 960223596 |wcopy |120240109130153.0 914 (OCoLC)on1139353269 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240501 |eprocessed |f1139353269