Explores the value of describing the machinery of neuroscience using the elegant language of mathematics and reveals in full the remarkable fruits of this endeavour.
Grace Lindsay is a computational neuroscientist currently based at University College London. She completed her PhD at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University, where her research focused on building mathematical models of how the brain controls sensory processing. Before that, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh and received a research fellowship to study at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Freiburg, Germany. She was awarded a Google PhD Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience in 2016 and has spoken at several international conferences.
Grace Lindsay provides a masterful tour of this important frontier,
tackling intimidating topics with verve and wit.
*Sean Carroll*
This is a remarkable book … an excellent introduction to an area
that few of us probably know anything about, and all the more
fascinating because of that.
*Popular Science*
Models of the Mind is a grand tour through the history of
computational neuroscience, from its humble beginnings in
information theory and neuron structure up to its modern
manifestations harnessing supercomputers to run large scale
convolutional neural networks that model important brain
systems.
*Women You Should Know*
The book is not only wide-ranging in its choice of topics but is
also a lively journey through the history of these efforts and
traces the lives of the eccentric and fascinating scientists who
were instrumental in figuring out the brain’s working by using
tools ranging from information theory and graph theory to Bayesian
modeling and neural networks.
*3 Quarks Daily*
‘Enthralling, erudite and accessible … an engrossing history of
science and an enlightening guide to neuroscience’s current
frontiers.’
*Liam Drew, Neurobiologist and author of I, Mammal: The Story of
What Makes Us Mammals*
‘This book is an anthology of the scientific poetry that has
illuminated our studies and conceptions of the brain.’
*Professor Larry Abbott, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience,
Columbia University*
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