Research Catalog

Title

Computational explorations in cognitive neuroscience : understanding the mind by simulating the brain / Randall C. O'Reilly and Yuko Munakata.

Author

O'Reilly, Randall C.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors

Munakata, Yuko.

Description

xxvii, 504 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Brain > physiology
• Cognition > physiology
• Cognitive neuroscience > Computer simulation
• Models, Neurological
• Neural Networks, Computer
• Neural networks (Neurobiology)

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-484) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction and Overview -- I. Basic Neural Computational Mechanisms -- 2. Individual Neurons -- 3. Networks of Neurons -- 4. Hebbian Model Learning -- 5. Error-Driver Task Learning -- 6. Combined Model and Task Learning, and Other Mechanisms -- II. Large-Scale Brain Area Organization and Cognitive Phenomena -- 7. Large-Scale Brain Area Functional Organization -- 8. Perception and Attention -- 9. Memory -- 10. Language -- 11. Higher-Level Cognition -- 12. Conclusions -- III. Simulator Details -- A. Introduction to the PDP++ Simulation Environment -- B. Tutorial for Constructing Simulations in PDP++ -- C. Leabra Implementation Reference -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

ISBN

• 0262650541 (pb : alk. paper)
• 0262150522 (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99086066^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library