文档介绍：Gateway to Memory
Mark A. Gluck, Catherine E. Myers
"Gateway to Memory is an exciting and badly needed text that integrates
computational and neurobiological approaches to memory. Authoritative and clearly
written, this book will be valuable for students and researchers alike."
Daniel L. Schacter, Professor and Chair of Psychology, Harvard University, and
author of Searching for Memory
This book is for students and researchers who have a specific interest in learning and
memory and want to understand putational models can be integrated into
experimental research on the hippocampus and learning. It emphasizes the function of
brain structures as they give rise to behavior, rather than the molecular or neuronal details.
It also emphasizes the process of modeling, rather than the mathematical details of the
models themselves.
The book is divided into two parts. The first part provides a tutorial introduction to topics
in neuroscience, the psychology of learning and memory, and the theory of work
models. The second part, the core of the book, putational models of how the
hippocampus cooperates with other brain structures -- including the entorhinal cortex,
basal forebrain, cerebellum, and primary sensory and motor cortices -- to support learning
and memory in both animals and humans. The book assumes no prior knowledge of
computational modeling or mathematics. For those who wish to delve more deeply into
the formal details of the models, there are optional "mathboxes" and appendices. The book
also includes extensive references and suggestions for further readings.
More endorsements:
"This book is a very user-friendly introduction to the world puter models of the brain, with an
emphasis on how the hippocampus and associated areas mediate memory. The authors take the time to
explain in detail the rationale for making models of the brain, and then use their own work, as well as related
neurobiological putation