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The study of the brain and behavior is illuminated with the discovery of invariances. Experimental brain research uncovers constancies amidst variation, with respect to interventions and transformations prescribed by experimental paradigms. Place cells, mirror neurons, event related potentials and areas differentially active in fMRI, all illustrate the pervasive role of invariances in neural systems in relation to their function.
This title features chapters on machines to explain the mind Domer's 'blueprint for a mind', representation of and for mental processes, language and future avenues, from PSI to microPSI and much more.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal. The 125 revised full papers cover morphogenesis and development, robotics and autonomous agents, evolutionary computation and theory, cellular automata, models of biological systems and their applications, ant colony and swarm systems, evolution of communication, simulation of social interactions, self-replication, artificial chemistry.
"This book provides an estimable global view of the most up-to-date research on the strategies, applications, practice, and implications of complex adaptive systems, to better understand the various critical systems that surround human life. Researchers will find this book an indispensable state-of-art reference"--Provided by publisher.
This volume offers an up-to-date overview of essential concepts and modern approaches to computational modelling, including the use of experimental techniques related to or directly inspired by them. The book introduces, at increasing levels of complexity and with the non-specialist in mind, state-of-the-art topics ranging from single-cell and molecular descriptions to circuits and networks. Four major themes are covered, including subcellular modelling of ion channels and signalling pathways at the molecular level, single-cell modelling at different levels of spatial complexity, network modelling from local microcircuits to large-scale simulations of entire brain areas and practical example...
The cerebellum is an intriguing component of the brain. In humans it occupies only 10% of the brain volume, yet has approximately 69 billion neurons; that is 80% of the nerve cells in the brain. The cerebellum first arose in jawed vertebrates such as sharks, and early vertebrates also have an additional cerebellum-like structure in the hindbrain. Shark cerebellum-like structures function as adaptive filters to discriminate 'self' from 'other' in sensory inputs. It is likely that the true cerebellum evolved from these cerebellum-like precursors, and that their adaptive filter functionality was adopted for motor control; paving the way for the athleticism and movement finesse that we see in sw...
Mal ist sie scheu und zickig, dann wieder fällt sie mit der Tür ins Haus. Diese Marie ist seltsam und nicht die Frau, mit der die Studentin Sarah Rosenberg freiwillig ganze Tage verbringt. Anfangs ist Sarah daher nur ungern bereit, Marie Felder, die neue Mitarbeiterin, durch Wien zu führen. Doch bald erfasst sie eine rätselhafte Zuneigung zu der verschlossenen Biologin und Sarah begegnet einer klugen jungen Frau, die mit ihrem Autismus leben und lieben muss ... Sensibel verknüpft Carolin Schairer die Erkundung einer sozialen Behinderung mit dem erotischen Coming-out einer jungen Erwachsenen.
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