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Author(s): C. R. Gallistel, Adam Philip King
ISBN(s): 9781405122870, 1405122870
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.41 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1405122870 

ISBN 13: 9781405122870

Author: C. R. Gallistel, Adam Philip King

Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last several decades. 

  • A provocative argument that impacts across the fields of linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience, suggesting new perspectives on learning mechanisms in the brain
  • Proposes that the field of neuroscience can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory
  • Suggests that the architecture of the brain is structured precisely for learning and for memory, and integrates the concept of an addressable read/write memory mechanism into the foundations of neuroscience
  • Based on lectures in the prestigious Blackwell-Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition, and now significantly reworked and expanded to make it ideal for students and faculty

Table of contents:

1. Information

  • Shannon’s Theory of Communication

  • Measuring Information

  • Efficient Coding

  • Information and the Brain

  • Digital and Analog Signals

  • Appendix: The Information Content of Rare Versus Common Events and Signals

2. Bayesian Updating

  • Bayes’ Theorem and Our Intuitions About Evidence

  • Using Bayes’ Rule

  • Summary

3. Functions

  • Functions of One Argument

  • Composition and Decomposition of Functions

  • Functions of More than One Argument

  • The Limits to Functional Decomposition

  • Functions Can Map to Multi-Part Outputs

  • Mapping to Multiple-Element Outputs Does Not Increase Expressive Power

  • Defining Particular Functions

  • Summary: Physical/Neurobiological Implications of Facts about Functions

4. Representations

  • Some Simple Examples

  • Notation

  • The Algebraic Representation of Geometry

5. Symbols

  • Physical Properties of Good Symbols

  • Symbol Taxonomy

  • Summary

6. Procedures

  • Algorithms

  • Procedures, Computation, and Symbols

  • Coding and Procedures

  • Two Senses of Knowing

  • A Geometric Example

7. Computation

  • Formalizing Procedures

  • The Turing Machine

  • Turing Machine for the Successor Function

  • Turing Machines for ƒ is _even

  • Turing Machines for ƒ+

  • Minimal Memory Structure

  • General Purpose Computer

  • Summary

8. Architectures

  • One-Dimensional Look-Up Tables (If-Then Implementation)

  • Adding State Memory: Finite-State Machines

  • Adding Register Memory

  • Summary

9. Data Structures

  • Finding Information in Memory

  • An Illustrative Example

  • Procedures and the Coding of Data Structures

  • The Structure of the Read-Only Biological Memory

10. Computing with Neurons

  • Transducers and Conductors

  • Synapses and the Logic Gates

  • The Slowness of It All

  • The Time-Scale Problem

  • Synaptic Plasticity

  • Recurrent Loops in Which Activity Reverberates

11. The Nature of Learning

  • Learning As Rewiring

  • Synaptic Plasticity and the Associative Theory of Learning

  • Why Associations Are Not Symbols

  • Distributed Coding

  • Learning As the Extraction and Preservation of Useful Information

  • Updating an Estimate of One’s Location

12. Learning Time and Space

  • Computational Accessibility

  • Learning the Time of Day

  • Learning Durations

  • Episodic Memory

13. The Modularity of Learning

  • Example 1: Path Integration

  • Example 2: Learning the Solar Ephemeris

  • Example 3: “Associative” Learning

  • Summary

14. Dead Reckoning in a Neural Network

  • Reverberating Circuits as Read/Write Memory Mechanisms

  • Implementing Combinatorial Operations by Table-Look-Up

  • The Full Model

  • The Ontogeny of the Connections?

  • How Realistic is the Model?

  • Lessons to be Drawn

  • Summary

15. Neural Models of Interval Timing

  • Timing an Interval on First Encounter

  • Dworkin’s Paradox

  • Neurally Inspired Models

  • The Deeper Problems

16. The Molecular Basis of Memory

  • The Need to Separate Theory of Memory from Theory of Learning

  • The Coding Question

  • A Cautionary Tale

  • Why Not Synaptic Conductance?

  • A Molecular or Sub-Molecular Mechanism?

  • Bringing the Data to the Computational Machinery

  • Is It Universal?

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