- Paperback: 376 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press; New Ed edition (3 April 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262692368
- ISBN-13: 978-0262692366
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 2.2 x 22.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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"Seductive on-screen views of brain activity open up a closed realm by rendering the mind visible. A new enlightenment beckons. A new stupidity, too, a new confusion of the moral and mechanical, if we don't listen carefully to sane and discriminating voices like Spitzer's." Paul Fisher, Daily Telegraph"Spitzer... has written a highly readable introduction to 'traditional' neural-net models.." Terrence J. Sejnowski, Nature
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How does the brain work? How do billions of neurons bring about ideas, sensations, emotions, and actions? Why do children learn faster than elderly people? What can go wrong in perception, thinking, learning, and acting? Scientists now use computer models to help us to understand the most private and human experiences. In The Mind Within the Net, Manfred Spitzer shows how these models can fundamentally change how we think about learning, creativity, thinking, and acting, as well as such matters as schools, retirement homes, politics, and mental disorders.Neurophysiology has told us a lot about how neurons work; neural network theory is about how neurons work together to process information. In this highly readable book, Spitzer provides a basic, nonmathematical introduction to neural networks and their clinical applications. Part I explains the fundamental theory of neural networks and how neural network models work. Part II covers the principles of network functioning and how computer simulations of neural networks have profound consequences for our understanding of how the brain works. Part III covers applications of network models (e.g., to knowledge representation, language, and mental disorders such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease) that shed new light on normal and abnormal states of mind. Finally, Spitzer concludes with his thoughts on the ramifications of neural networks for the understanding of neuropsychology and human nature.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This exceptionally clear and lucid books describes with masterful clarity the recent advances in the area of theoretical modeling of the human brain using artificial neural networks. It not only introduces a subject which normally requires a considerable amount of mathematics very clearly, but also explores the consequences on such modeling on our everyday's life with great clarity. Other books with less mathematics and more "philosophy" are also not so easy to read, but this one stands out for its clarity. Admittedly the level is introductory, as fine details are not covered, but it makes you feel that you must immediately start to go deeper on these subjects, as it is written in a very engaging style. Reading this book is a great intellectual pleasure.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Nearly every publication that touches computational neuroscience is saturated with mathematics. Spitzer accurately depicts the defining characteristics of neurons, and presents abstract network models with very little emphasis on the mathematical theory that other authors believe is necessary to describe neural networks.
It's refreshing to experience a book that describes complex, technical issues, but reads more like an entertaining story.
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I cannot recall a book that succeeds quite as well as this one in accomplishing what the author set out to do. Manfred Spitzer manages to combine a lucid treatment of the workings of neural nets and of the brain. What emerges is a remarkable story that provides an extradorinary perspective on learning and acting. I recommend it highly.
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This is a fascinating book about human cognition. It does not try andexplain the detailed mechanics of our neurology, although some of this iscovered. Read more
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