TY - BOOK AU - Sterling,Peter AU - Laughlin,Simon TI - Principles of neural design SN - 9780262327312 AV - QP376 .S765 2015e U1 - 612.8/2 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England PB - The MIT Press KW - Brain KW - Physiology KW - Neural circuitry KW - Learning KW - Nervous system KW - Life sciences KW - Educational psychology KW - Human information processing KW - Central nervous system KW - Physical sciences KW - Anatomy KW - Psychology, Applied KW - Nervous System KW - Biological Science Disciplines KW - Psychology, Educational KW - Mental Processes KW - Central Nervous System KW - Natural Science Disciplines KW - Psychological Phenomena and Processes KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Psychiatry and Psychology KW - Neural Pathways KW - Nerve Net KW - Animal Structures KW - Cerveau KW - Physiologie KW - Réseaux nerveux KW - Apprentissage KW - Système nerveux KW - Sciences de la vie KW - Psychopédagogie KW - Traitement de l'information chez l'homme KW - Système nerveux central KW - Sciences physiques KW - Anatomie KW - Psychologie appliquée KW - Voies nerveuses KW - biological sciences KW - aat KW - physical sciences KW - anatomy KW - brains KW - physiology KW - MEDICAL KW - bisacsh KW - SCIENCE KW - Life Sciences KW - Human Anatomy & Physiology KW - Neuroscience KW - fast KW - NEUROSCIENCE/General KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-518) and index; 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 N2 - "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"--MIT CogNet UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=997080 ER -