Brain Computations: What and How
Edmund T. Rolls, University of Warwick and Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience
Oxford University Press, 2021
ISBN: 9780198871101;
Language: English
In order to understand how the brain works, it is essential to know what is computed by different brain systems, and how those computations are performed. Brain Computations: What and How elucidates what is computed in different brain systems and describes current computational approaches and models of how each of these brain systems computes. This approach has potential for helping us understand ourselves better in health. Potential applications of this understanding are to the treatment of the brain in disease, as well as to artificial intelligence, which will benefit from knowledge of how the brain performs many of its extraordinarily impressive functions.
The text is accompanied by six MATLAB code packages, complete with comments designed to be a starting point for experimenting with the networks. MATLAB code packages can be found in Appendix D.
