Theoretical neuroscience : understanding cognition / Xiao-Jing Wang.

Author/creator Wang, Xiao-Jing author.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationBoca Raton : CRC Press, 2025.
Copyright Date©2025
Description1 online resource (xi, 561 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Supplemental ContentDirect link to eBook
Subjects

Contents Understanding the Cognitive Brain -- Neurons and Synapses -- Neural Networks -- Plasticity, Learning and Memory -- Working Memory -- Decision Making -- Value-based Economic Choice -- Executive Function -- Large-scale Multiregional Brain -- Computational Psychiatry -- Biological and Artificial Intelligence -- Looing Back and Ahead.
Abstract "This textbook is an introduction to systems and computational neuroscience with a special focus on cognition. It consists of three parts: Part I covers basic concepts and mathematical models of computational neuroscience, as well as cutting-edge topics. Part II is dedicated to building blocks of cognition: working memory (how our brain maintains and manipulates information "online" in the absence of any external input), decision making (how a choice is selected among multiple options under uncertainty and risk) and behavioral flexibility (how we direct our attention and control our actions). In Part III frontier research is discussed: models of large-scale multiregional brain systems, computational psychiatry, interface with Artificial Intelligence. The author emphasizes the viewpoint of neural circuits as dynamical systems, and cross-level (from genes and cell types to collective neural populations to behavior) mechanistic understanding of the brain and the mind. Taken together, a reader is offered the opportunity to become well versed in this highly cross-disciplinary field of the 21st century"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 26, 2025).
Issued in other formPrint version: Wang, Xiao-Jing. Theoretical neuroscience Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2025 9781032604824
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