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Author Anderson, Britt-Anne, 1974-

Title Computational neuroscience and cognitive modelling : a student's introduction to methods and procedures / Britt Anderson
Published Los Angeles : SAGE, ©2014
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Contents COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE AND COGNITIVE MODELLING COVER -- COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE AND COGNITIVE MODELLING -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE IDEAS AND SCOPE OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY -- PART I: MODELLING NEURONS -- CHAPTER 2: WHAT IS A DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION? -- CHAPTER 3: NUMERICAL APPLICATION OF A DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION -- CHAPTER 4: INTERMEZZO: COMPUTING WITH LOOPS -- CHAPTER 5: FROM ACTION POTENTIALS TO PROGRAMMING NEURONS: INTEGRATE AND FIRE -- CHAPTER 6: INTERMEZZO: COMPUTING WITH IF STATEMENTS -- CHAPTER 7: HODGKIN AND HUXLEY: THE MEN AND THEIR MODEL -- CHAPTER 8: INTERMEZZO: COMPUTING WITH FUNCTIONS -- PART II: NEURAL NETWORKS -- CHAPTER 9: NEURAL NETWORK MATHEMATICS: VECTORS AND MATRICES -- CHAPTER 10: INTERMEZZO: INTERACTIVE COMPUTING -- CHAPTER 11: AN INTRODUCTION TO NEURAL NETWORKS -- CHAPTER 12: INTERMEZZO: INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION OF THE DELTA RULE WITH OCTAVE -- CHAPTER 13: AUTO-ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY AND THE HOPFIELD NET -- PART III: PROBABILITY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MODELS -- CHAPTER 14: WHAT ARE THE ODDS? -- CHAPTER 15: DECISIONS AS RANDOM WALKS -- CHAPTER 16: INTERMEZZO: PROGRAMMING PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS WITH PYTHON -- PART IV: COGNITIVE MODELLING AS LOGIC AND RULES -- CHAPTER 17: BOOLEAN LOGIC -- CHAPTER 18: INTERMEZZO: COMPUTING WITH FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES -- CHAPTER 19: PRODUCTION RULES AND COGNITION -- CHAPTER 20: INTERMEZZO: FUNCTIONAL CODING OF A SIMPLE PRODUCTION SYSTEM -- CHAPTER 21: ACT-R: A COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE -- CHAPTER 22: AGENT-BASED MODELLING -- CHAPTER 23: CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Summary This unique, self-contained and accessible textbook provides an introduction to computational modelling in psychology and neuroscience accessible to students with little or no background in computing or mathematics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Computational Biology
Neurosciences -- methods
Cognition
Models, Neurological
Cognitive psychology -- Mathematical models
Computational neuroscience
Form Electronic book
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