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Information Theory and the Brain deals with an expanding area of neuroscience which provides a framework for understanding neuronal processing. It is derived from a conference held in Newquay, UK, where a select group of scientists from around the world met to discuss the topic. This book begins with an introduction to the basic concepts of information theory and then illustrates these concepts with examples from research over 40 years. Throughout the book, the contributors highlight current research from four different areas: 1) biological networks, 2) information theory and artificial networks, 3) information theory and psychology, 4) formal analysis. Each section includes an introduction and glossary covering basic concepts. This book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in neuroscience as well as computer scientists and cognitive scientists. Neuroscientists interested in any aspect of neural networks or information processing will find this a very useful addition to the current literature in this rapidly growing field.

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"...the skeptic as well as the aficionado of information theory will profit from reading this new book." The Quarterly Review of Biology

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Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology The Self, Ego, Identity, Personality Mathematics Probability & Statistics

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Published: 15th September 2000

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List of contributors
Preface
Introductory information theory and the brain
Biological Networks
Problems and solutions in early visual processing
Coding efficiency and the metabolic cost of sensory and neural information
Coding third-order image structure
Information Theory and Artificial Networks
Experiments with low entropy neural networks
The emergence of dominance stripes and orientation maps in a network of firing neurons
Dynamic changes in receptive fields induced by cortical reorganization German Mato and NFstor Parga
Time to learn about objects
Principles of cortical processing applied to and motivated by artificial object recognition
Performance measurement based on usable information
Information Theory and Psychology
Modelling clarity change in spontaneous speech
Free gifts from connectionist modelling
Information and resource allocation
Formal Analysis
Quantitative analysis of a Schaffer collateral model
A quantitative model of information processing in CA1
Stochastic resonance and bursting in a binary-threshold neuron with intrinsic noise
Information density and cortical magnification factors
References
Index
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