Artículos relacionados a Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex

Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex - Tapa dura

Miikkulainen, Risto; Bednar, James A.; Choe, Yoonsuck; Sirosh, Joseph

 
9780387220246: Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex
Tapa dura
ISBN 10: 0387220240 ISBN 13: 9780387220246
Editorial: Springer, 2005

Sinopsis

For more than 30 years, the visual cortex has been the source of new theories and ideas about how the brain processes information. The visual cortex is easily accessible through a variety of recording and imagining techniques and allows mapping of high level behavior relatively directly to neural mechanisms. Understanding the computations in the visual cortex is therefore an important step toward a general theory of computational brain theory.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

De la contraportada

Biological structures can be seen as collections of special devices coordinated by a matrix of organization. Devices are dif?cult to evolve and are meticulously conserved through the eons. Organization is a ?uid medium capable of rapid adaptation. The brain carries organizational ?uidity to the extreme. In its context, typical devices are ion channels, transmitters and receptors, signaling pathways, whole individual neurons or speci?c circuit patterns. The border line between what is to be called device and what a feat of organization is ?owing, given that in time organized s- systems solidify into devices. In spite of the neurosciences¿ traditional concentration on devices, their aiming point on the horizon must be to understand the principles by which the nervous system ties vast arrays of internal and external variables into one coherent purposeful functional whole ¿ to understand the brain¿s mechanism of organization. For that purpose a crucial methodology is in silico experimentation. Computer simulation is a convenient tool for testing functional ideas, a sharp weapon for d- tinguishing those that work from those that don¿t. To be sure, many alternatives can only be decided by direct experiment on the substrate, not by modeling. However, if a functional idea can be debunked as ?awed once tried in silico it would be a waste to make it the subject of a decade of experimentation or discussion. The venture of understanding the function and organization of the visual system illustrates this danger.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Springer
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0387220240
ISBN 13 
9780387220246
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
538
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible