The Computing neuron / edited by Richard Durbin, Christopher Miall, Graeme Mitchison.

Wokingham, England ; Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., [1989], ©1989.

xiv, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Based on papers presented at a meeting held in Cambridge in the summer of 1988, sponsored by King's College Research Centre and others.

1. On the correspondence between network models and the nervous system -- 2. The diversity of neuronal properties -- 3. Learning algorithms and networks of neurons -- 4. Adaptation and decorrelation in the cortex -- 5. From chemotaxis to cooperativity: abstract exercises in neuronal learning strategies -- 6. A mechanism for the storage of temporal correlations -- 7. Induction of synaptic plasticity by Hebbian covariance in the hippocampus -- 8. The representation and storage of information in neural networks in the primate cerebral cortex and hippocampus -- 9. The computational unit as an assembly of neurons -- 10. Behavioural choice -- 11. Flexibility of computational units in invertebrate CPGs -- 12. A mechanism for switching in the nervous system -- 13. Reflex circuits and the control of movement -- 14. Idiosyncratic computational units generating innate motor patterns -- 15. Neuronal computation in the mammalian spinal cord -- 16. The modelling of pyramidal neurones in the visual cortex -- 17. The reliability of single neurons and circuit design -- 18. Designing synaptic connections in the outer retina -- 19. Optical flow -- 20. Computing optical flow in the primate visual system -- 21. Models for the development of the visual cortex -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.