Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury SIGMAISBN-13:9781472966438ISBN-10:1472966430UPC:9781472966438Book Category:Mathematics, ScienceBook Subcategory:Mathematical Analysis, Life Sciences, PhysicsBook Topic:Neuroscience, Mathematical & ComputationalSize:8.43 x 5.28 x 1.34 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCPRY4FYX9
Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain
The human brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For more than a century, a diverse array of researchers searched for a language that could be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate - and how those communications create thoughts, perceptions and actions. The language they were looking for was mathematics,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury SIGMAISBN-13:9781472966438ISBN-10:1472966430UPC:9781472966438Book Category:Mathematics, ScienceBook Subcategory:Mathematical Analysis, Life Sciences, PhysicsBook Topic:Neuroscience, Mathematical & ComputationalSize:8.43 x 5.28 x 1.34 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCPRY4FYX9
Grace Lindsay is a computational neuroscientist currently based at University College London. She completed her PhD at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University, where her research focused on building mathematical models of how the brain controls sensory processing. Before that, she earned a bachelor's degree in Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh and received a...
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