Churchland and Sejnowski address the foundational ideas of the emerging field of
computational neuroscience, examine a diverse range of neural network models, and …

What is computation? In virtue of what is something a computer? Why do we say a slide rule
is a computer but an egg beater is not? These are, in a way, the philosophical questions of …

Before this book was published in 1992, conceptual frameworks for brain function were
based on the behavior of single neurons, applied globally. This book developed a different …

From the Publisher: How do groups of neurons interact to enable the organism to see,
decide, and move appropriately__ __ What are the principles whereby networks of neurons …

An anniversary edition of the classic work that influenced a generation of neuroscientists
and cognitive neuroscientists. Before The Computational Brain was published in 1992 …

How do groups of neurons interact to enable the organism to see, decide, and move
appropriately? What are the principles whereby networks of neurons represent and …

summary Before The Computational Brain was published in 1992, conceptual frameworks
for brain function were based on the behavior of single neurons, applied globally. In The …

To understand how neurons give rise to a mental life, we must know what they do, both
individually as single cells and collectively as coherent systems of cells. The idea that brains …