The chapters in this volume are an indication of the vigour and strength of the subject of neural networks in solving hard problems. They also indicate how the subject is giving new insights and developing new relationships to previous branches of information technology. Included are papers describing the applications of neural networks in automotive and aerospace industries, in problems of digital data transmission, on the estimation of helicopter strain and on pattern analysis in clinical psychiatry. There are also several papers on the applications of neural networks to finance.

After more than a decade of participatory initiatives in development in China, this volume provides a source of information on the key issues, constraints and capacity building necessary to implement participatory approaches in China today. The book outlines the institutional change necessary for participatory processes to be adopted and become meaningful in poor villages, and for project achievements to be taken up on a larger scale in rural China. The case studies are by principal Chinese academics and practitioners and cover forestry, natural resource management, rural development,...

The perception-action cycle has been described by the eminent neuroscientist JM Fuster as the circular flow of information that takes place between the organism and its environment in the course of a sensory-guided sequence of behaviour towards a goal. Each action in the sequence causes certain changes in the environment that are analyzed bottom-up through the perceptual hierarchy and lead to the processing of further action, top-down through the executive hierarchy, toward motor effectors. These cause new changes that are analyzed and lead to new action, and so on and so forth.

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This book details a model of consciousness supported by scientific experimental data from the human brain. It presents how the Corollary Discharge of Attention Movement (CODAM) neural network model allows for a scientific understanding of consciousness as well as provides a solution to the Mind-Body problem. The book provides readers with a general approach to consciousness that is powerful enough to lead to the inner self and its ramifications for the vast range of human experiences. It also offers an approach to the evolution of human consciousness and features chapters on mental disease...

A survey of concepts for neural networks. It discusses issues such as: the mathematics of neural networks; neurobiological modelling; neural network control of a simple mobile robot; attentional modulation in visual pathways; and the modelling and understanding of consciousness.

This book presents how the Corollary Discharge of Attention Movement (CODAM) neural network model allows for a scientific understanding of consciousness as well as provides a solution to the mind-body problem.