Jud Wolfskill <wolfskil at mit.edu> shilled again for MIT on 17 Dec 2001:
[but we don't mind because his shills are interesting and informative]
> I thought readers of comp.ai.neural-nets might be interested in this
> book. For more information, please visit
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262041995/ Thank you!
>> Best,
> Jud
>> Theoretical Neuroscience
> Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems
> Peter Dayan and L. F. Abbott [...]
ATM:
Why has MIT been historically so NIH-style inimical to new theories?
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=d9098e459276596f&rnum=1 (QED)
> [...] This text introduces the basic mathematical and computational
> methods of theoretical neuroscience and presents applications
http://mind.sourceforge.net/index.html#theory_turned_AI_Mind
> in a variety of areas including vision,
http://mind.sourceforge.net/vision.html "The Vision Module"
> sensory-motor integration,
http://mind.sourceforge.net/sesorium.html "The Sensorium Module"
> development,
http://mind.sourceforge.net/alife.html "The Alife AI Loop"
> learning,
http://mind.sourceforge.net/newcept.html "The Newconcept Module"
> and memory.
http://mind.sourceforge.net/stm.html "Short Term Memory (STM)"
> The book is divided into three parts. Part I discusses the
> relationship between sensory stimuli and neural responses,
> focusing on the representation of information by the spiking
> activity of neurons. Part II discusses the modeling of neurons
> and neural circuits on the basis of cellular and synaptic biophysics.
> Part III analyzes the role of plasticity in development and learning.
> An appendix covers the mathematical methods used, and exercises
> are available on the book's Web site.
An alternative Theoretical Neuroscience is available for authors at
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/theory5.html "Brain-Mind: Know Thyself!"
>Peter Dayan is on the faculty of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience
>Unit at University College London. L. F. Abbott is the Nancy Lurie Marks
>Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Volen Center for Complex
>Systems at Brandeis University. He is the coeditor of Neural Codes and
>Distributed Representations (MIT Press, 1999).
>>7 x 9, 576 pp., 165 illus.
>cloth ISBN 0-262-04199-5
Arthur T. Murray, http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/
--
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com -- "AI for Virtual Entitites"
http://www.nanomagazine.com/nanomagazine/01_10_24 - October 2001
http://www.frontiernet.net/~wcowart/murray_article "Building AI"
http://mind.sourceforge.net/theory5.html "Brain-Mind: Know Thyself!"
