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Author:
Neumann
By Yale University Press
Whether they think it's impossible or inevitable, most people have highly polarised views on artificial intelligence. John von Neumann, genius, mathematician and inventor of the nearly ubiquitous computer architecture bearing his name, blazed trails for both camps in The Computer and the Brain.This short book, originally written for Yale's Silliman lectures but published posthumously, summarises his views on machine and biological intelligence with unprecedented clarity and precision. His understanding of neuroscience was that of a brilliant and strongly motivated amateur at the end of the 1950s, good enough to take on the problem but by no means matching his comprehension of the machines to which he had devoted much of his professional life. Still, his take on intracranial computation is stunningly prescient--he looks beyond the then-fashionable digital metaphors to suggest a semi-analogue strategy that uses parallel processing to make up for its deficiency in speed. Prominent neuroscientific thinkers Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland provide a brief, enlightening foreword to the second edition, placing the author's thinking in context and grounding the rea...
 Simply a classic, 2001-06-30
It is difficult not to wonder what would people like John von Neumann could do if they were alive today - it is *so* impressive to see what they managed to achieve with the technology they had at the time. There is no doubt we are in debt with these guys (von Neumann, Shannon, Turing, etc.)Read the original works - like "The Computer and the Brain". They are as valid today as they were many, many years ago.
Author:
JH Austin
By MIT Press
zen , 2006-10-27
This is quite a book to read by a doctor who is looking at the Brain
from a western perspective and trying to align it to an eastern model.
He goes on a journey to Japan and undergoes his own zen path, full of doubt
and fear a good thing and comes up with an greter understanding of zen and the brain.
It is a book that you can read time and time again, and it is a great lesson on how little we know of the brain and our acceptance if at all of what we do not fully understand /comprehend.
It is a real eye opener and each one who reads will have a differing perspective, but we will have gained whatecever it is we need to know at that moment.
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Author:
Scott A. Huettel, Allen W. Song, Gregory McCarthy
By Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S.
good introduction for fMRI, 2005-06-05
This book is ideal for learning and understanding fMRI. It covers most of the relevant topics, including up to date research and references to the relevant papers. Starting with the history of MRI it allows understanding the main ideas behind the development of fMRI. But afterwards the authors go into more detail of fMRI, including the physics of MRI, the relationship between neuronal activity and hemodynamic response, statistical issues like SNR, preprocessing experimental design and statistical analyis.
The authors manage to explain MRI in a way, which is easy to understand, but they do not oversimplify the topic. They use a lot of didactically weel designed images.
I think this is the best basic introduction into fMRI and it is written for starters, but contains usefull information even for the more advanced MRI researchers. It is a must for a student learning fMRI!
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By OUP Oxford
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By WileyBlackwell
Coherent Compendium, 2008-01-17
Whilst I confess I haven't finished reading it yet (725 pages excluding appendix and index) it is clear that this is a good 'companion'.
It certainly isn't an introduction for those new to the subject, and it does come with all the benefits (varied perspectives) and problems (different styles) of being a collection by multiple authors.
Why it is so good is that it isn't a selection of seemingly random papers by people with something interesting to say, but a well structured, no messing, clearly written and up-to-date exploration of the subject.
What's more, you get both a philosophical and a scientific slant - vital in my view given the current state of play.
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