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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.