Memory, Attention, and Decision-Making: A Unifying Computational Neuroscience Approach

ISBN-13: 9780199232703 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 820 str.

Rolls

Opis

Memory, attention, and decision-making are three major areas of cognitive neuroscience. They are, however, frequently studied in isolation, using a range of models to understand them. This book brings a unified approach to understanding these three processes, show how these fundamental functions can be understood in a common and unifying framework.

Recenzje

The main strength of this book, compared to similar computational neuroscience books, is the functional, practical, and clinical links that are made to theoretical and computational models. The overall significance and contribution of computational neuroscience in quite apparent and the marriage of these models with neuropsychology and neuroimaging is well conceived.

O autorze

Edmund T. Rolls is Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He read preclinical medicine at the University of Cambridge, and now performs research in neuroscience at Oxford. His research links neurophysiological and computational neuroscience approaches to human functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies in order to provide a fundamental basis for understanding human brain function and its disorders. He is author of The Brain and Emotion (1999, Oxford University Press), with A.Treves of Neural Networks and Brain Function (1998, Oxford University Press), with G.Deco of Computational Neuroscience of Vision (2002, Oxford University Press) and Emotion Explained (2005, Oxford University Press).