Memory and the Computational Brain - How Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience (Paperback)

"Memory and the Computational Brain" offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last several decades. A provocative argument that impacts across the fields of linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience, suggesting new perspectives on learning mechanisms in the brainProposes that the field of neuroscience can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theorySuggests that the architecture of the brain is structured precisely for learning and for memory, and integrates the concept of an addressable read/write memory mechanism into the foundations of neuroscienceBased on lectures in the prestigious Blackwell-Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition, and now significantly reworked and expanded to make it ideal for students and faculty

General

Imprint:	Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2009
First published:	May 2009
Authors:	R Gallistel
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-4051-2288-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Neurology & clinical neurophysiology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Memory Promotions
LSN:	1-4051-2288-9
Barcode:	9781405122887

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