Principles of Neural Coding

Written by renowned experts in the field, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of neural coding. It describes the basic principles, covers some of the major developments in the area, and presents a complete view of how neurons in the brain encode information. The text not only contains the most important experimental findings, but also explores the main methodological aspects for studying neural coding. In addition, the book describes alternative approaches based on simulations with neural networks and in silico modeling.

Author: Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 05/06/2013
Pages: 664
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.15lbs
Size: 10.20h x 7.20w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781439853306

About the Author

Rodrigo Quian Quiroga is a neuroscientist at the University of Leicester UK. He holds a research chair and is the director of the Centre for Systems Neuroscience and the head of the Bioengineering Research Group at the University of Leicester. In 2010, he obtained the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. His main research interest is on the study of the principles of visual perception and memory. Together with colleagues at Caltech and UCLA, he discovered what has been named "Concept cells" or "Jennifer Aniston neurons"--neurons in the human brain that play a key role in memory formation.

Stefano Panzeri received a Laurea in Physics from the University of Torino, and a PhD in computational neuroscience from SISSA, Trieste, Italy. He has held personal research fellowship awards in theoretical physics and computational neuroscience, including an INFN Junior Fellowship in Theoretical Physics at Turin University, an EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford, and an MRC Research Fellowship in Neuroinformatics at the University of Newcastle. He has worked as senior scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology since 2007 and as chair in the Formal Analysis of Cortical Networks at the University of Glasgow since 2012.