Neuropeptides
On the occasion of David de Wied's retirement as Professor of Pharmacology and Chairman of the Board of the Rudolf Magnus Institute, it was thought to be the appropriate moment to publish a volume reviewing the state-of-the-art concept on neuropeptide research. A major part of this research originated from De Wied, and the authors who contributed to the volume are all former or current associates. The volume begins with a classic article written by David de Wied in the late 1960's, which pointed...
Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics A
Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics is the first introductory book on this new interdisciplinary area. This book consists of two volumes, the first of which, Synthetic Approaches to Human Understanding, advances human understanding from a robotics or engineering point of view. The second, Analytic Approaches to Human Understanding, addresses related subjects in cognitive science and neuroscience. These two volumes are intended to complement each other in order to more comprehensively investigate hum...
How to Mend a Broken Heart (Fairlight's How to... Modern Living)
by Ziella Bryars
'Did you hear Amy has heartbreak?! What bad luck to catch it right at the end of winter.' When Ziella Bryars was in the midst of heartbreak, a conversation with her neuroscientist best friend changed everything. Frustrated by unhelpful advice from magazines and rom-coms, Ziella began diving deep into the latest scientific research to help her understand the pain of heartbreak and find a route to recovery. This warm and witty self-help book outlines the impact a relationship break-up has on our...
In THE WISDOM PARADOX, world-renowned neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg argues that although some mental abilities (such as recent-memory recall) decline as the mind enters the autumn season of our lifespan and we increasingly experience 'senior moments', the brain actually becomes more powerful in its ability to recognize patterns. As a result, we are able to make decisions at more intuitive and effective levels -- a late-emerging mental strength he terms 'wisdom'. In lively, accessible prose...
This book examines the biological, especially the neural, substrates of affiliation and related social behaviors. Affiliation refers to social behaviors that bring individuals closer together. This includes such associations as attachment, parent-offspring interactions, pair-bonding, and the building of coalitions. Affiliations provide a social matrix within which other behaviors, including reproduction and aggression, may occur. While reproduction and aggression also reduce the distance between...
Comparative Neurobiology in Chiroptera
by Georg Baron, Heinz Stephan, and Heiko D. Frahm
These are three volumes to study systematically and comprehensively the brain structure in bats. Volume 1 contains comparisions of the macromorphology, main brain components and selected nuclei. The text is complemented by 53 tables, numerous original line drawings and photographs and one atlas of a megachiropteran and one of a microchiropteran brain. Volume 2 deals with the characteristics of brain structure in the taxonomic units and contains a comprehensive survey of the existing literature...
Integrative Approaches to Molecular Biology
What are the main challenges of computational molecular biology once the genome projects are completed? Integrative Approaches to Molecular Biology focuses on molecular biology beyond sequences: from gene regulation to differentiation, a higher-level integration that will be a major theme in biology following conclusion of the genome program. It charts the course of the emerging discipline of integrative molecular biology from macromolecular sequences to a biological (and theoretical) perspectiv...
Neurocomputing (A Bradford Book)
by James A. Anderson and Andras Pellionisz
In bringing together seminal articles on the foundations of research, the first volume of "Neurocomputing has become an established guide to the background of concepts employed in this burgeoning field. "Neurocomputing 2 collects thirty-nine articles covering network architecture, neurobiological computation, statistics and pattern classification, and problems and applications, that suggest important directions for the evolution of neurocomputing. Many of the most valuable practical ideas for ne...
Data Intelligence and Cognitive Informatics (Algorithms for Intelligent Systems)
This book discusses new cognitive informatics tools, algorithms and methods that mimic the mechanisms of the human brain which lead to an impending revolution in understating a large amount of data generated by various smart applications. The book is a collection of peer-reviewed best selected research papers presented at the International Conference on Data Intelligence and Cognitive Informatics (ICDICI 2020), organized by SCAD College of Engineering and Technology, Tirunelveli, India, during 8...
Im diesem aktuellen Lehrbuchklassiker hat John R. Anderson die modernen Erkenntnisse der Gehirnforschung und der experimentellen Kognitionswissenschaft zusammengefuhrt. Die Neuauflage ist angereichert mit neuen Erkenntnissen aus den Themengebieten Gedachtnis, Emotion und Spracherwerb (inkl. dem Erlernen einer Fremdsprache) und dem Vergleich von 'Artificial Intelligence' vs 'Human Intelligence' sowie Erkenntnissen aus der kognitiven Neurowissenschaft. Der Leser erhalt einen fundierten und gut ver...
Deep Learning to See (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
by Marco Gori, Alessandro Betti, and Stefano Melacci
The remarkable progress in computer vision over the last few years is, by and large, attributed to deep learning, fueled by the availability of huge sets of labeled data, and paired with the explosive growth of the GPU paradigm. While subscribing to this view, this work criticizes the supposed scientific progress in the field, and proposes the investigation of vision within the framework of information-based laws of nature. This work poses fundamental questions about vision that remain far from...
Active Hearing (Wenner-Gren International, v.65)
Several observations have recently contributed significantly to our knowledge of the processes involved in the transmission of signals in the auditory system. These events include the mechanical motion pattern of the cochlear partition, the motion of hair cell cilia, gating of receptor currents, hair cell motility, synaptic transmission and signal processing in central nuclei and in the auditory cortex. Hearing may therefore be considered to arise from a series of active processes which modify t...
Models of Neural Networks (Physics of Neural Networks, v. 2)
The theory of neural nets has two new paradigms: information coding through coherent firing of the neurons and structural feedback. As compared to traditional neural nets, spiking neurons provide an extra degree of freedom: time. This degree of freedom is realized by a coherent spiking of many neurons in the network, a nonlinear phenomenon. The other paradigm, feedback, is a dominant feature of the structural organization of the brain. This volume provides an in-depth analysis of both paradigms,...
The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex (Oxford Psychology, #50)
by Richard E Passingham and Steven P. Wise
The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental function. In this important new book, the authors argue that primate-specific parts of the prefrontal cortex evolved to reduce errors in foraging choices, so that particular ancestors of modern humans could overcome periodic food shortages. These developments laid the foundation for working...
Brain-Inspired Information Technology (Studies in Computational Intelligence, #266)
"Brain-inspired information technology" is one of key concepts for the development of information technology in the next generation. Explosive progress of computer technology has been continuing based on a simple principle called "if-then rule". This means that the programmer of software have to direct every action of the computer programs in response to various inputs. There inherently is a limitation of complexity because we human have a limited capacity for managing complex systems. Actually,...
Connecting Art to Math: New Activities for Whole Brain Thinking
by Hal Torrance
Connecting Art to Math: New Activities for Whole Brain Thinking uses an actvities-based process to link broad math concepts to varied art themes. An excellent resource for teachers who want to incorporate a wider range of intuitive math experiences in their instruction. Recommended for grades 4-8.
Crawdad: An Online Lab Manual for Neurophysiology
by Robert Wyttenbach, Bruce Johnson, and Ronald Hoy
Not just a traditional lab manual placed online, it engages your students with sight and sound, teaching through video demonstration.Updated in 2014 with higher-resolution videos and figures, new references, and updated text, the exercises are inexpensive and straightforward and have been refined for over 25 years at Cornell and other institutions.
The acousticolateral system plays an important role in the biological activity of vertebrates. It includes the organ of Corty, the vestibular and otolith apparatus, lateral-line organs and electroreceptors. Throughout the acousticolateral system, the sensory receptors are hair cells. Provided here is a comprehensive overview of current research on synaptic transmission in sensory hair cells. Morphological characteristics are presented and data on the properties and selectivity of various ionic c...
Biological Psychology Plus Access Card for Gradetracker website
by Fred Toates
Assuming no prior knowledge of biology and building upon previous editions, Biological Psychology third edition uses everyday experiences to explain complex concepts in an interesting and highly accessible way. This is complemented by a range of inventive pedagogical features and extensive full-colour illustrations to stimulate interest and help students to develop and test their understanding. Online resources accompanying the text can be found at www.pearsoned.co.uk/toates These include v...
Neuroscience, Psychology and Religion (Templeton Science & Religion)
by Malcolm Jeeves and Warren S. Brown
The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author's unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are also explored, including the role of environmental constraints in the emergence of whistled speech, their phonetic and phonological typology, the cognitive processing of whistled signals, monogenesis and polygenesis scenarios, the...