By Gary Marcus, Jeremy Freeman, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser
ISBN-10: 069116276X
ISBN-13: 9780691162768
Including a bankruptcy by means of 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser
An unheard of examine the search to resolve the mysteries of the human mind, The way forward for the Brain takes readers to absolutely the frontiers of technology. unique essays by way of major researchers resembling Christof Koch, George Church, Olaf Sporns, and May-Britt and Edvard Moser describe the dazzling technological advances that would let us to map the greater than eighty-five billion neurons within the mind, in addition to the demanding situations that lie forward in figuring out the predicted deluge of knowledge and the clients for construction operating simulations of the human mind. A must-read for someone attempting to comprehend bold new learn courses comparable to the Obama administration's mind Initiative and the ecu Union's Human mind venture, The way forward for the Brain sheds gentle at the breathtaking implications of mind technological know-how for medication, psychiatry, or even human attention itself.
Contributors comprise: Misha Ahrens, Ned Block, Matteo Carandini, George Church, John Donoghue, Chris Eliasmith, Simon Fisher, Mike Hawrylycz, Sean Hill, Christof Koch, Leah Krubitzer, Michel Maharbiz, Kevin Mitchell, Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser, David Poeppel, Krishna Shenoy, Olaf Sporns, Anthony Zador.
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On top of that, the word neuron makes it sound like there is only one kind, whereas in fact there are several hundred kinds, possibly more, each with distinctive physical characteristics, electrical characteristics, and, likely, computational functions. Second, we have yet to discover many of the organizing principles that govern all that complexity. We don’t know, for example, if the brain uses anything as systematic as, say, the widespread ASCII encoding scheme that computers use for encoding words.
Connectomes” are like highway maps, “activity maps” record the traffic as the brain is engaged in behavior. Like Google Maps, we ultimately need many “layers” of information, telling us about landmarks (like the folds of the cortex), annotations about particular types of neurons (the brain likely has close to a thousand), and ultimately about the pathways of neurons that are involved in particular kinds of behaviors. The essays in this part tell a story—from the current, cutting edge to the future—about technological advances that will allow us to map out as much of that territory as possible.
To analyze and record their findings neuroanatomists develop atlases or maps of the brain similar to those cartographers produce. The state of our understanding today of an integrated plan of brain function remains incomplete. Rather than indicating a lack of effort, this observation highlights the profound complexity and interconnectivity of all but the simplest neural structures. Laying the foundation of cellular neuroscience, Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) drew and classified many types of neurons and speculated that the brain consists of an interconnected network of distinct neurons, as opposed to a more continuous web.
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