Brain computation as hierarchical abstraction / Dana H. Ballard.

9780262323819 (electronic bk.)
0262323818 (electronic bk.)
0262534126
9780262534123
9780262028615
0262028611

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]

English

1 online resource (xiv, 440 pages).

QP357.5 .B35 2015eb

612.8/23343

The vast differences between the brain's neural circuitry and a computer's silicon circuitry might suggest that they have nothing in common. In fact, as Dana Ballard argues in this book, computational tools are essential for understanding brain function. Ballard shows that the hierarchical organisation of the brain has many parallels with the hierarchical organisation of computing; as in silicon computing, the complexities of brain computation can be dramatically simplified when its computation is factored into different levels of abstraction.

The vast differences between the brain's neural circuitry and a computer's silicon circuitry might suggest that they have nothing in common. In fact, as Dana Ballard argues in this book, computational tools are essential for understanding brain function. Ballard shows that the hierarchical organisation of the brain has many parallels with the hierarchical organisation of computing; as in silicon computing, the complexities of brain computation can be dramatically simplified when its computation is factored into different levels of abstraction.

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