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Biophysics of Computation - Information processing in single neurons (Paperback, New edition)
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Biophysics of Computation - Information processing in single neurons (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Computational Neuroscience Series
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Neural network research often builds on the fiction that neurons
are simple linear threshold units, completely neglecting the highly
dynamic and complex nature of synapses, dendrites, and
voltage-dependent ionic currents. Biophysics of Computation:
Information Processing in Single Neurons challenges this notion,
using richly detailed experimental and theoretical findings from
cellular biophysics to explain the repertoire of computational
functions available to single neurons. The author shows how
individual nerve cells can multiply, integrate, or delay synaptic
inputs and how information can be encoded in the voltage across the
membrane, in the intracellular calcium concentration, or in the
timing of individual spikes.
Key topics covered include the linear cable equation; cable theory
as applied to passive dendritic trees and dendritic spines;
chemical and electrical synapses and how to treat them from a
computational point of view; nonlinear interactions of synaptic
input in passive and active dendritic trees; the Hodgkin-Huxley
model of action potential generation and propagation; phase space
analysis; linking stochastic ionic channels to membrane-dependent
currents; calcium- and potassium-currents and their role in
information processing; the role of diffusion, buffering and
binding of calcium, and other messenger systems in information
processing and storage; short- and long-term models of synaptic
plasticity; simplified models of single cells; stochastic aspects
of neuronal firing; the nature of the neuronal code; and
unconventional models of sub-cellular computation.
Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single
Neurons serves as an ideal text for advancedundergraduate and
graduate courses in cellular biophysics, computational
neuroscience, and neural networks, and will appeal to students and
professionals in neuroscience, electrical and computer engineering,
and physics.
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