The spike : an epic journey through the brain in 2.1 seconds /

The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work We see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate with one another, sending blips of voltage th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Humphries, Mark (Computational neuroscientist) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Neural transmission.
Neurosciences.
Synaptic Transmission
Neurosciences
Transmission nerveuse.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Neuroscience.
Neural transmission
AI.
Dean Burnett.
DeepMind.
Google Brain.
How Emotions Are Made.
Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Matthew Cobb.
The Idea of the Brain.
The Idiot Brain.
action potential.
artificial intelligence.
axon.
basal ganglia.
brain as a computer.
brain disorders.
cognition.
cognitive.
connectome.
connectomics.
consciousness.
cortex.
decision making.
machine learning.
motor cortex.
motor regions.
neural coding.
neural computation.
neural networks.
predictive brain.
seeing.
vision.
visual cortex.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • All or nothing
  • Legion
  • Split personality
  • Failure
  • The dark neuron problem
  • The meaning of spike
  • A moving experience
  • Spontaneity
  • But a moment in time
  • The future of spikes.

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