New Book : Theoretical Neuroscience

[Peter Dayan]

Larry Abbott and I would like to announce our new book:

		      Theoretical Neuroscience
      Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems
		     Peter Dayan and L. F. Abbott

For more information, please visit http://people.brandeis.edu/~abbott/book

Theoretical neuroscience provides a quantitative basis for describing what 
nervous systems do, determining how they function, and uncovering the 
general principles by which they operate. This text introduces the basic 
mathematical and computational methods of theoretical neuroscience and 
presents applications in a variety of areas including vision, sensory-motor 
integration, development, learning, and memory.

The book is divided into three parts. Part I discusses the relationship 
between sensory stimuli and neural responses, focusing on the 
representation of information by the spiking activity of neurons. Part II 
discusses the modeling of neurons and neural circuits on the basis of 
cellular and synaptic biophysics. Part III analyzes the role of plasticity 
in development and learning. An appendix covers the mathematical methods 
used, and exercises are available on the book's Web site.

Peter Dayan is on the faculty of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit 
at University College London. L. F. Abbott is the Nancy Lurie Marks 
Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Volen Center for Complex 
Systems at Brandeis University. He is the coeditor of Neural Codes and 
Distributed Representations (MIT Press, 1999).

7 x 9, 476 pp., 165 illus.
cloth ISBN 0-262-04199-5