Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience

Gallistel, C. R.; King, Adam Philip

ISBN 10: 1405122889 / ISBN 13: 9781405122887

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405122889
• ISBN 13: 9781405122887
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social Sciences

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

C. R. Gallistel is Co-Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. He is one of the foremost psychologists working on the foundations of cognitive neuroscience. His publications include The Symbolic Foundations of Conditional Behavior (2002), and The Organization of Learning (1990).

Adam Philip King is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Fairfield University.