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Models of the mind: how physics, engineering and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain / Grace Lindsay (2021)
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Titre : Models of the mind: how physics, engineering and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain Type de document : livre Auteurs : Grace Lindsay, Auteur Mention d'édition : 1st ed. Editeur : London : Bloomsbury Sigma Année de publication : 2021 Collection : Bloomsbury Sigma series Importance : 400 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4729-6642-1 Prix : 28.00 USD Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Brain Learning Mental ability Intelligence Memory Mathematics Neural networks Résumé : Le site éditeur indique : The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For over a century, a diverse array of researchers have been trying to find a language that can be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate – and how those communications create thoughts, perceptions and actions. The language they were looking for was mathematics, and we would not be able to understand the brain as we do today without it.
In Models of the Mind, author and computational neuroscientist Grace Lindsay explains how mathematical models have allowed scientists to understand and describe many of the brain's processes, including decision-making, sensory processing, quantifying memory, and more. She introduces readers to the most important concepts in modern neuroscience, and highlights the tensions that arise when bringing the abstract world of mathematical modelling into contact with the messy details of biology.
Each chapter focuses on mathematical tools that have been applied in a particular area of neuroscience, progressing from the simplest building block of the brain – the individual neuron – through to circuits of interacting neurons, whole brain areas and even the behaviors that brains command. Throughout Grace will look at the history of the field, starting with experiments done on neurons in frog legs at the turn of the twentieth century and building to the large models of artificial neural networks that form the basis of modern artificial intelligence. She demonstrates the value of describing the machinery of neuroscience using the elegant language of mathematics, and reveals in full the remarkable fruits of this endeavor.En ligne : https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/models-of-the-mind-9781472966421/ Models of the mind: how physics, engineering and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain [livre] / Grace Lindsay, Auteur . - 1st ed. . - London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021 . - 400 p.. - (Bloomsbury Sigma series) .
ISBN : 978-1-4729-6642-1 : 28.00 USD
Langues : Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés : Brain Learning Mental ability Intelligence Memory Mathematics Neural networks Résumé : Le site éditeur indique : The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For over a century, a diverse array of researchers have been trying to find a language that can be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate – and how those communications create thoughts, perceptions and actions. The language they were looking for was mathematics, and we would not be able to understand the brain as we do today without it.
In Models of the Mind, author and computational neuroscientist Grace Lindsay explains how mathematical models have allowed scientists to understand and describe many of the brain's processes, including decision-making, sensory processing, quantifying memory, and more. She introduces readers to the most important concepts in modern neuroscience, and highlights the tensions that arise when bringing the abstract world of mathematical modelling into contact with the messy details of biology.
Each chapter focuses on mathematical tools that have been applied in a particular area of neuroscience, progressing from the simplest building block of the brain – the individual neuron – through to circuits of interacting neurons, whole brain areas and even the behaviors that brains command. Throughout Grace will look at the history of the field, starting with experiments done on neurons in frog legs at the turn of the twentieth century and building to the large models of artificial neural networks that form the basis of modern artificial intelligence. She demonstrates the value of describing the machinery of neuroscience using the elegant language of mathematics, and reveals in full the remarkable fruits of this endeavor.En ligne : https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/models-of-the-mind-9781472966421/ Exemplaires(1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 69737 LIN_11_69737 Livre Salle des ouvrages 11_Mathématiques Sorti jusqu'au 22/10/2044
Titre : Animal innovation Type de document : livre Auteurs : Reader, S.M.(Ed.), Éditeur scientifique ; Laland, K.N.(Ed.), Éditeur scientifique Mention d'édition : 01 éd. Editeur : New York : Oxford University Press, NY Année de publication : 2003 Importance : 344 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-19-852622-3 Note générale : Based on papers from a symposium on Animal Innovation held at the International Ethological Congress in Tuebingen, Germany, August 2001 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Animal learning Behaviour Mental ability Résumé : In 1953 a young female Japanese macaque called Imo began washing sweet potatoes before eating them, presumably to remove dirt and sand grains. Soon other monkeys had adopted this behaviour, and potato washing gradually spread throughout the troop. When, three years after her first invention, Imo devised a second novel foraging behaviour, that of separating wheat from sand by throwing mixed handfuls into water and scooping out the floating grains, she was almost instantly heralded around the world as a 'monkey genius'. Imo is probably the most celebrated of animal innovators. In fact, many animals will invent new behaviour patterns, adjust established behaviours to a novel context, or respond to stresses in an appropriate and novel manner. Innovation is an important component of behavioural flexibility, vital to the survival of individuals in species with generalist or opportunistic lifestyles, and potentially of critical importance to those endangered or threatened species forced to adjust to changed or impoverished environments. Innovation may also have played a central role in avian and primate brain evolution. Yet until recently animal innovation has been subject to almost complete neglect by behavioural biologists, psychologists, social learning researchers, and conservation-minded biologists. This collection of stimulating and readable articles by leading scientific authorities is the first ever book on 'animal innovation', designed to put the topic of animal innovation on the map and heighten awareness of this developing field. [Résumé éditeur] En ligne : http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy044/2004296817.html Animal innovation [livre] / Reader, S.M.(Ed.), Éditeur scientifique ; Laland, K.N.(Ed.), Éditeur scientifique . - 01 éd. . - New York : Oxford University Press, NY, 2003 . - 344 p.
ISBN : 978-0-19-852622-3
Based on papers from a symposium on Animal Innovation held at the International Ethological Congress in Tuebingen, Germany, August 2001
Langues : Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés : Animal learning Behaviour Mental ability Résumé : In 1953 a young female Japanese macaque called Imo began washing sweet potatoes before eating them, presumably to remove dirt and sand grains. Soon other monkeys had adopted this behaviour, and potato washing gradually spread throughout the troop. When, three years after her first invention, Imo devised a second novel foraging behaviour, that of separating wheat from sand by throwing mixed handfuls into water and scooping out the floating grains, she was almost instantly heralded around the world as a 'monkey genius'. Imo is probably the most celebrated of animal innovators. In fact, many animals will invent new behaviour patterns, adjust established behaviours to a novel context, or respond to stresses in an appropriate and novel manner. Innovation is an important component of behavioural flexibility, vital to the survival of individuals in species with generalist or opportunistic lifestyles, and potentially of critical importance to those endangered or threatened species forced to adjust to changed or impoverished environments. Innovation may also have played a central role in avian and primate brain evolution. Yet until recently animal innovation has been subject to almost complete neglect by behavioural biologists, psychologists, social learning researchers, and conservation-minded biologists. This collection of stimulating and readable articles by leading scientific authorities is the first ever book on 'animal innovation', designed to put the topic of animal innovation on the map and heighten awareness of this developing field. [Résumé éditeur] En ligne : http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy044/2004296817.html Exemplaires(1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 67757 REA_04_67757 Livre Salle des ouvrages 04_Ecologie_animale Disponible
Titre : Through our eyes only ? : the search for animal consciousness Type de document : livre Auteurs : Dawkins, M.S. Mention d'édition : 01 éd. Editeur : Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press Année de publication : 1998 Importance : 192 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-19-850320-0 Note générale : Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 10/04/2008 (cote 63849); Inventaire 2008: Pointé et ré-emprunté le 21/01/2008 (cote 67008) Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Animal Animal behaviour Mental ability Philosophy Note de contenu : Pbk; 2 ex. dont un archivé au sous-sol (cote 63849) Through our eyes only ? : the search for animal consciousness [livre] / Dawkins, M.S. . - 01 éd. . - Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 1998 . - 192 p.
ISBN : 978-0-19-850320-0
Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 10/04/2008 (cote 63849); Inventaire 2008: Pointé et ré-emprunté le 21/01/2008 (cote 67008)
Langues : Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés : Animal Animal behaviour Mental ability Philosophy Note de contenu : Pbk; 2 ex. dont un archivé au sous-sol (cote 63849) Exemplaires(2)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 63849 Daw_4_63849 Livre Salle des ouvrages 04_Ecologie_animale Disponible 67008 Daw_4_67008 Livre Salle des ouvrages 04_Ecologie_animale Disponible