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The mind within the net : models of learning, thinking, and acting
- Title
- The mind within the net : models of learning, thinking, and acting / Manfred Spitzer.
- Author
- Spitzer, Manfred.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass : The MIT Press, [1999], ©1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QP363.3 .S55 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 359 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- How does the brain work? How do billions of neurons bring about ideas, sensations, emotions, and actions? Why do children learn faster than elderly people? What can go wrong in perception, thinking, learning, and acting? Scientists now use computer models to help us understand the most private and human experiences.
- In The Mind within the Net, Manfred Spitzer shows how these models can fundamentally change how we think about learning, creativity, thinking, and acting, as well as about such matters as schools, retirement homes, politics, and mental disorders.
- Uniform Title
- Geist im Netz. English
- Alternative Title
- Geist im Netz.
- Subject
- Note
- "A Bradford book."
- Translation of: Geist im Netz.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-351) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Neuronal Teamwork -- 3. Learning -- 4. Vectors in the Head -- 5. Maps in the Cortex -- 6. Hidden Layers -- 7. Neuroplasticity -- 8. Feedback -- 9. Representing Knowledge -- 10. Semantic Networks -- 11. The Disordered Mind -- 12. Thoughts and Impressions.
- ISBN
- 0262194066 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98010911
- OCLC
- ocm38216647
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries