The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks

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Michael A. Arbib
MIT Press, 2003 - Computers - 1290 pages

A new, dramatically updated edition of the classic resource on the constantly evolving fields of brain theory and neural networks.

Dramatically updating and extending the first edition, published in 1995, the second edition of The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks presents the enormous progress made in recent years in the many subfields related to the two great questions: How does the brain work? and, How can we build intelligent machines?

Once again, the heart of the book is a set of almost 300 articles covering the whole spectrum of topics in brain theory and neural networks. The first two parts of the book, prepared by Michael Arbib, are designed to help readers orient themselves in this wealth of material. Part I provides general background on brain modeling and on both biological and artificial neural networks. Part II consists of "Road Maps" to help readers steer through articles in part III on specific topics of interest. The articles in part III are written so as to be accessible to readers of diverse backgrounds. They are cross-referenced and provide lists of pointers to Road Maps, background material, and related reading.

The second edition greatly increases the coverage of models of fundamental neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience, and neural network approaches to language. It contains 287 articles, compared to the 266 in the first edition. Articles on topics from the first edition have been updated by the original authors or written anew by new authors, and there are 106 articles on new topics.

 

Contents

How to Use Part I
3
Road Maps A Guided Tour
25
Action Monitoring and Forward Control
83
Adaptive Spike Coding
90
Computational Power
97
AnalogyBased Reasoning and Metaphor
106
Artifical Intelligence and Neural Networks
113
Associative Networks
117
Elementary Mechanisms
672
Motivation
680
Motor Control Biological and Theoretical
686
Motor Pattern Generation
696
Motor Theories of Perception
705
Muscle Models
711
Basic Neuron Types
719
Chemical and Electrical Synapses
725

Auditory Periphery and Cochlear Nucleus
127
Axonal Modeling
135
General Principles
144
Bayesian Methods and Neural Networks
151
Bayesian Networks
157
Biophysical Mechanisms in Neuronal Modeling
164
Biophysical Mosaic of the Neuron
170
BrainComputer Interfaces
178
Cerebellum and Conditioning
187
Neural Plasticity
196
Chaos in Biological Systems
205
Cognitive Development
212
Psychology and Connectionism
219
Collicular Visuomotor Transformations for Gaze
226
Command Neurons and Command Systems
233
Competitive Queuing for Planning and Serial
241
Computing with Attractors
248
Conditioning
256
Consciousness Neural Models of
263
Contour and Surface Perception
271
Cooperative Phenomena
279
Cortical Hebbian Modules
285
Cortical Population Dynamics and Psychophysics
294
Covariance Structural Equation Modeling
300
Data Clustering and Learning
308
Decision Support Systems and Expert Systems
316
Systems
470
Hebbian Learning and Neuronal Regulation
511
Helmholtz Machines and SleepWake Learning
522
Hidden Markov Models
528
Spatial Models
539
Identification and Control
547
Imaging the Motor Brain
556
Imaging the Visual Brain
562
Independent Component Analysis
569
Information Theory and Visual Plasticity
575
Aplysia
581
Neural Implications
590
Language Acquisition
600
The Mirror System Hypothesis
606
Language Processing
612
Theoretical Bounds
619
Learning Network Topology
628
Lesioned Networks as Models of Neuropsychological
635
Localized Versus Distributed Representations
643
Locomotion Vertebrate
649
Markov Random Field Models in Image Processing
657
Model Validation
666
Neuroanatomy in a Computational Perspective
733
Neuroinformatics
741
Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
751
Neuromodulation in Invertebrate Nervous Systems
757
Neuromorphic VLSI Circuits and Systems
765
Neuropsychological Impairments
773
Synaptic Cellular and Network
781
Object Recognition
788
Object Structure Visual Processing
797
Olfactory Bulb
806
Optimal Sensory Encoding
815
Optimization Neural
822
Orientation Selectivity
831
PAC Learning and Neural Networks
840
Past Tense Learning
848
Pattern Formation Neural
859
Perception of ThreeDimensional Structure
868
Perspective on Neuron Model Complexity
877
Philosophical Issues in Brain Theory
886
Population Codes
893
Potential Fields and Neural Networks
901
Principal Component Analysis
910
Programmable Neurocomputing Systems
916
Prosthetics Neural
923
Pursuit Eye Movements
929
Radial Basis Function Networks
937
Implications for Computational
945
Reading
951
Neurophysiological Modeling
960
Reinforcement Learning in Motor Control
968
Retina
975
Robot Learning
983
Rodent Head Direction System
990
Scratch Reflex
999
SelfOrganizing Feature Maps
1005
Sensor Fusion
1014
Sensorimotor Learning
1020
Sequence Learning
1027
Silicon Neurons
1034
SingleCell Models
1044
Somatosensory System
1053
Sound Localization and Binaural Processing
1061
Psycholinguistics
1068
Statistical Mechanics of Generalization
1087
Editorial Advisory Board
1239
Index
1255
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Michael Arbib has played a leading role at the interface of neuroscience and computer science ever since his first book, Brains, Machines, and Mathematics. From Neuron to Cognition provides a worthy pedagogical sequel to his widely acclaimed Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. After thirty years at University of Southern California he is now pursuing interests in "how the brain got language" and "neuroscience for architecture" in San Diego.