Memory and the Computational Brain : Why Cognitive Science Will Transform Neu...

Memory and the Computational Brain : Why Cognitive Science Will Transform Neuroscience, Paperback by Gallistel, C. R.; King, Adam Philip, ISBN 1405122889, ISBN-13 9781405122887, Like New Used, Free shipping in the USGallistel (Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science) and King (mathematics and computer science, Fairfield U.) argue that there must be an addressable read/write memory mechanism in brains that encodes information received by the brain into symbols, locates the information when needed, and transports it to computational machinery that makes productive use of the information; the steps of this process are analogous to writing, addressing, and reading in computer science. They go looking for it, privileging insights from computer science, which they say has identified the essential components of a powerful computing machine, whereas neuroscience has yet to establish an empirically anchored understanding of how the brain computes. Their topics include Bayesian updating, representations, computation, data structures, the nature of learning, dead reckoning in a neural network, and the molecular basis of memory. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()