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Author Sterling, Peter, 1940-
Title Principles of neural design / Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin.
Publisher Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
Copyright date ©2015



Descript 1 online resource (xxiii, 542 pages) : illustrations
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Contents What engineers know about design -- Why an animal needs a brain -- Why a bigger brain? -- How bigger brains are organized -- Information processing : from molecules to molecular circuits -- Information processing in protein circuits -- Design of neurons -- How photoreceptors optimize the capture of visual information -- The fly lamina : an efficient interface for high-speed vision -- Design of neural circuits : recoding analogue signals to pulsatile -- Principles of retinal design -- Beyond the retina : pathways to perception and action -- Principles of efficient wiring -- Learning as design/design of learning.
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ISBN 9780262327312 (electronic bk.)
0262327317 (electronic bk.)
9780262028707 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262028700 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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Author Sterling, Peter, 1940-
Subject Brain -- Physiology.
Neural circuitry.
Learning.
Alt author Laughlin, Simon.
Descript 1 online resource (xxiii, 542 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file
Contents What engineers know about design -- Why an animal needs a brain -- Why a bigger brain? -- How bigger brains are organized -- Information processing : from molecules to molecular circuits -- Information processing in protein circuits -- Design of neurons -- How photoreceptors optimize the capture of visual information -- The fly lamina : an efficient interface for high-speed vision -- Design of neural circuits : recoding analogue signals to pulsatile -- Principles of retinal design -- Beyond the retina : pathways to perception and action -- Principles of efficient wiring -- Learning as design/design of learning.
Note English.
ISBN 9780262327312 (electronic bk.)
0262327317 (electronic bk.)
9780262028707 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262028700 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Author Sterling, Peter, 1940-
Subject Brain -- Physiology.
Neural circuitry.
Learning.
Alt author Laughlin, Simon.

Subject Brain -- Physiology.
Neural circuitry.
Learning.
Descript 1 online resource (xxiii, 542 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file
Contents What engineers know about design -- Why an animal needs a brain -- Why a bigger brain? -- How bigger brains are organized -- Information processing : from molecules to molecular circuits -- Information processing in protein circuits -- Design of neurons -- How photoreceptors optimize the capture of visual information -- The fly lamina : an efficient interface for high-speed vision -- Design of neural circuits : recoding analogue signals to pulsatile -- Principles of retinal design -- Beyond the retina : pathways to perception and action -- Principles of efficient wiring -- Learning as design/design of learning.
Note English.
Alt author Laughlin, Simon.
ISBN 9780262327312 (electronic bk.)
0262327317 (electronic bk.)
9780262028707 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262028700 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

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