Brain Computations and Connectivity

• Main Author: Rolls, Edmund T
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2023; Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Edition: 2
• Subjects: Biology, life sciences; Book Industry Communication; Brain; Brain-Localization of functions; cerebral cortex; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Cognition and cognitive psychology; Cognitivism, cognitive theory; computational neuroscience; consciousness; deep learning; emotion; Life sciences: general issues; machine learning; Mathematics & science; Mathematics and Science; memory; mind and brain; neuroimaging; neurology; neuroscience; Neurosciences; perception; Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology; Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology; psychiatry; Psychological theory & schools of thought; Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints; Psychology; Society & social sciences; Society and Social Sciences; thema EDItEUR
• ISBN: 9780198887928; 0198887922; 0198887914; 9780198887911
• DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198887911.001.0001

The subject of this book is how the brain works. In order to understand this, it is essential to know what is computed by different brain systems; and how the computations are performed. The aim of this book is to elucidate what is computed in different brain systems; and to describe current computational approaches and models of how each of these brain systems computes. Understanding the brain in this way has enormous potential for understanding ourselves better in health and in disease. Potential applications of this understanding are to the treatment of the brain in disease; and to artificial intelligence which will benefit from knowledge of how the brain performs many of its extraordinarily impressive functions. This book is pioneering in taking this approach to brain function: to consider what is computed by many of our brain systems; and how it is computed. The book is also pioneering in taking biologically plausible approaches to brain computation. The book is also pioneering in incorporating evidence on the connectivity of 360 cortical regions in the human brain, making the book highly relevant to understanding the human brain. The book will be of interest to all scientists interested in brain function and how the brain works, whether they are from neuroscience, or from medical sciences including neurology and psychiatry, or from the area of computational science including machine learning and artificial intelligence, or from areas such as theoretical physics.