Principles of Neural Design

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Peter Sterling Simon Laughlin (Professor of Neurobiology, University of Cambridge)

Principles of Neural Design

Peter Sterling, Simon Laughlin (Professor of Neurobiology, University of Cambridge)

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MIT Press
09 June 2017

Neurosciences

Series: The MIT Press

Two distinguished neuroscientists distil general principles from more than a century of scientific study,

reverse engineering

the brain to understand its design.

Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged. And yet a principled framework to organize this knowledge has been missing. In this book, Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin, two leading neuroscientists, strive to fill this gap, outlining a set of organizing principles to explain the whys of neural design that allow the brain to compute so efficiently. Setting out to

reverse engineer

the brain-disassembling it to understand it-Sterling and Laughlin first consider why an animal should need a brain, tracing computational abilities from bacterium to protozoan to worm. They examine bigger brains and the advantages of

anticipatory regulation ; identify constraints on neural design and the need to

nanofy ; and demonstrate the routes to efficiency in an integrated molecular system, phototransduction. They show that the principles of neural design at finer scales and lower levels apply at larger scales and higher levels; describe neural wiring efficiency; and discuss learning as a principle of biological design that includes

save only what is needed. Sterling and Laughlin avoid speculation about how the brain might work and endeavor to make sense of what is already known. Their distinctive contribution is to gather a coherent set of basic rules and exemplify them across spatial and functional scales.

By: Peter Sterling, Simon Laughlin (Professor of Neurobiology, University of Cambridge)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
ISBN: 9780262534680
ISBN 10: 0262534681
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 568
Publication Date: 09 June 2017
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Sterling is Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Simon Laughlin is Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Reviews for Principles of Neural Design

The authors have been thinking deeply about the issues discussed and it shows, the neurobiology is right up-to-date, and the writing is artful, clear, and engaging. This book is a wonderful start for what will, I believe, become the standard way for conceptualizing neurobiology. -- Charles F. Stevens * Current Biology *

Winner of Winner, 2015 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Biological & Life Sciences, presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers 2015
Winner of Winner, 2015 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Biological & Life Sciences, presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers 2015

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