New Book Announcement

[F. Ventriglia]

Dear Connectionists fellow,

The following book has appeared as part of Studies in Neuroscience
Series, and may be of interest to you.

Best,

Francesco Ventriglia
Neurodynamics Department
Cybernetics Institute, CNR
Arco Felice (NA), Italy

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Neural Modeling and Neural Networks
F. Ventriglia editor - Pergamon Press

Research in neural modeling and neural networks has escalated
dramatically in the last decade, acquiring along the way terms and
concepts, such as learning, memory, perception, recognition, which are
the basis of neuropsychology. Nevertless, for many, neural modeling
remains controversial in its purported ability to describe brain
activity. The difficulties in modeling are various, but arise
principally in identifying those elements that are fundamental for the
espression (and description) of superior neural activity. This is
complicated by our incomplete knowledge of neural structures and
functions, at the cellular and population levels. The firts step towards
enhanced appreciation of the value of neural modeling and neural
networks is to be aware of what has  been achieved in this
multidisclipinary field of research. This book sets out to create such
awareness. Leading experts develop in twelve chapters the key topics of
neural structures and functions, dynamics of single neurons,
oscillations in groups of neurons, randomness and chaos in neural
activity, (statistical) dynamics of neural networks, learning, memory
and pattern recognition.

Contents: Preface. Contributors.
Anatomical bases of neural network modeling (J. Szentagothai)
Models of visuomotor coordination in frog and monkey (M.A. Arbib)
Analysis of single-unit activity in the cerebral cortex (M. Abeles)
Single neuron dynamics: an introduction (L.F. Abbott)
An introduction to neural oscillators (B. Ermentrout)
Mechanisms responsible for epilepsy in hippocampal slices predispose the
  brain to collective oscillations (R.D. Traub, J.G.R. Jefferys)
Diffusion models of single neurones' activity and related problems (L.M.
  Ricciardi)
Noise and chaos in neural systems (P. Erdi)
Qualitative overview of population neurodynamics (W.F. Freeman)
Towards a kinetic theory of cortical-like neural fields (F. Ventriglia)
Psychology, neuro-biology and modeling: the science of hebbian reverberations
  (D.J. Amit)
Pattern recognition with neural networks (K. Fukushima)
Bibliography. Author index. Subject index.

Publication date            November 1993
Approx 300 pages            Price US$ 125.00

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