Описание: This lavishly illustrated book chronicles the remarkable development of space art from a fledgling theme to a modern movement.In Part I, we traverse the history of art and astronomy from ancient times, through the industrial revolution, and into the 20th-century Space Age.
Название: Spike Timing ISBN: 0367380102 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367380106 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 9798.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Neuronal communication forms the basis for all behavior, from the smallest movement to our grandest thought processes. Among the many mechanisms that support these functions, spike timing is among the most powerful and--until recently--perhaps the least studied. In the last two decades, however, the study of spike timing has exploded. The heightened interest is due to several factors. These include the development of physiological tools for measuring the activity of neural ensembles and analytical tools for assessing and characterizing spike timing. These advances are coupled with a growing appreciation of spike timing's theoretical importance for the design principles of the brain.
Spike Timing: Mechanisms and Function examines the function of spike timing in sensory, motor, and integrative processes, providing readers with a broad perspective on how spike timing is produced and used by the nervous system. It brings together the work and ideas of leaders in the field to address current thinking as well as future possibilities.
The first section of the book describes the foundation for quantitative analysis and theory. It examines the information contained in spike timing, how it can be quantified, and how neural systems can extract it. The second section explores how input-output relationships are reflected in spike timing across a range of sensory systems.
Drawing together multiple perspectives, including theoretical and computational studies as well as experimental studies in a range of model systems, the book provides a firm background for investigators to consider spike timing as it applies to their own work. It also offers a glimpse of future advances related to mechanisms of spike timing and its role in neural function, such as the development of novel computational technologies.
Автор: Sonja Gr?n; Stefan Rotter Название: Analysis of Parallel Spike Trains ISBN: 1461426529 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461426523 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 28732.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the first book to collect the relevant basic knowledge on analysis of parallel spike trains in a single source. Coverage includes the first steps of stochastic point processes (SPPs) as an appropriate mathematical framework to describe spike trains.
Автор: Maria Marinaro; Silvia Scarpetta; Yoko Yamaguchi Название: Dynamic Brain - from Neural Spikes to Behaviors ISBN: 3540888527 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540888529 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 5164.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Suitable for graduate students and researchers with different scientific backgrounds who wish to learn brain science beyond the boundary of their fields. This volume presents 12 tutorial papers based on lectures given by leading researchers at the 12th International Summer School on Neural Networks in Erice, Italy, in December 2008.
Описание: This book gives a basic and broad but innovative view of autism. It seeks to rupture stereotypes and stigmas and starts with the story and paintings of the artist Camila Falchi, who has an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Camila's art is evidence of the complexity of her internal world and its variety of themes, intensity of feelings, daydreaming, fantasy, and dreams. This complexity compels us to question and rethink our perceptions of the autism spectrum, the mind, and creativity. As a neurologist and a neuroscientist, our goal with this book is to disseminate knowledge about autism, its characteristics, and potentials by means of the example of this artist.
Описание: This book gives a basic and broad but innovative view of autism. It seeks to rupture stereotypes and stigmas and starts with the story and paintings of the artist Camila Falchi, who has an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Camila's art is evidence of the complexity of her internal world and its variety of themes, intensity of feelings, daydreaming, fantasy, and dreams. This complexity compels us to question and rethink our perceptions of the autism spectrum, the mind, and creativity. As a neurologist and a neuroscientist, our goal with this book is to disseminate knowledge about autism, its characteristics, and potentials by means of the example of this artist.
For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98 percent of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. But researchers have recently discovered variations and modulations in this junk DNA that are involved with a number of intractable diseases. Our increasing knowledge of junk DNA has led to innovative research and treatment approaches that may finally ameliorate some of these conditions.
Junk DNA can play vital and unanticipated roles in the control of gene expression, from fine-tuning individual genes to switching off entire chromosomes. These functions have forced scientists to revisit the very meaning of the word "gene" and have engendered a spirited scientific battle over whether or not this genomic "nonsense" is the source of human biological complexity. Drawing on her experience with leading scientific investigators in Europe and North America, Nessa Carey provides a clear and compelling introduction to junk DNA and its critical involvement in phenomena as diverse as genetic diseases, viral infections, sex determination in mammals, and evolution. We are only now unlocking the secrets of junk DNA, and Nessa Carey's book is an essential resource for navigating the history and controversies of this fast-growing, hotly disputed field.
The origin of modern humans has probably been the most debated issue in evolutionary biology over the last few decades.
Modern humans (Homo sapiens), thespeciesthat we are, means 'wise man' in Latin. Our species is the only surviving species of the genusHomobut where we came from has been a topic of much debate. Modern humans originated in Africa within the past 200,000 years and evolved from their most likely recent common ancestor, Homo erectus, which means 'upright man' in Latin.Homo erectusis an extinct species of human that lived between 1.9 million and 135,000 years ago.
At some point in its evolutionary history, our species Homo sapiens ceased to be a nonlinguistic, nonsymbolic organism, living in the world as presented to it by Nature, and instead began to exist in a world that it reconstructs in its mind. Most scientists since Darwin have been content to explain this extraordinary transformation in human consciousness by the operation of natural selection. However, the human fossil and archaeological records indicate that modern human symbolic consciousness is not the culmination of the long trend that natural selection would predict. Instead, it shows that major change in the human past has been episodic and rare and that, as far as can be determined from the archaeological record, the passage from non-symbolic to symbolic cognition is a recent event as well as an unprecedented one. So recent, indeed, that it significantly postdates the acquisition of modern human anatomy as expressed in skeletal structure. It, thus, appears most likely that the biological (neural) capacity underwriting the radically new behavioral model arose as an incidental exaptation in the same process that produced the new skeletal structure of Homo sapiens, but that it lay unexpressed until it was "discovered" using a cultural innovation, plausibly the invention of language.
The origin of modern humans has probably been the most debated issue in evolutionary biology over the last few decades.
Modern humans (Homo sapiens), thespeciesthat we are, means 'wise man' in Latin. Our species is the only surviving species of the genusHomobut where we came from has been a topic of much debate. Modern humans originated in Africa within the past 200,000 years and evolved from their most likely recent common ancestor, Homo erectus, which means 'upright man' in Latin.Homo erectusis an extinct species of human that lived between 1.9 million and 135,000 years ago.
At some point in its evolutionary history, our species Homo sapiens ceased to be a nonlinguistic, nonsymbolic organism, living in the world as presented to it by Nature, and instead began to exist in a world that it reconstructs in its mind. Most scientists since Darwin have been content to explain this extraordinary transformation in human consciousness by the operation of natural selection. However, the human fossil and archaeological records indicate that modern human symbolic consciousness is not the culmination of the long trend that natural selection would predict. Instead, it shows that major change in the human past has been episodic and rare and that, as far as can be determined from the archaeological record, the passage from non-symbolic to symbolic cognition is a recent event as well as an unprecedented one. So recent, indeed, that it significantly postdates the acquisition of modern human anatomy as expressed in skeletal structure. It, thus, appears most likely that the biological (neural) capacity underwriting the radically new behavioral model arose as an incidental exaptation in the same process that produced the new skeletal structure of Homo sapiens, but that it lay unexpressed until it was "discovered" using a cultural innovation, plausibly the invention of language.
Автор: Karobi Moitra Название: A Journey Through Genetics, Part 2 ISBN: 1615046623 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781615046621 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 9286.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Explores the exciting discoveries in genetics and molecular biology. This volume takes the reader on a journey to explore the frontiers of genetic diversity, gene cloning, the human journey, and the human genome project. The book is targeted at undergraduate non-majors and also as a "companion" to a standard genetics textbook for biology majors.
Автор: Karobi Moitra Название: A Journey Through Genetics, Part I ISBN: 1615046402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781615046409 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 9286.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Takes the reader on an incredible journey to explore the exciting discoveries in genetics and molecular biology. The reader will embark on a genetic odyssey starting with the "Father of Genetics", Gregor Mendel, leading on to the story of photo 51 and the discovery of the structure of the DNA double helix, and culminating with the invention of the polymerase chain reaction.
