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Theory of Cortical Plasticity: (With Software Package “PLASTICITY”) by Leon N. Cooper, Nathan Intrator, Brian S. Blais, Harel Z. Shouval is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This is an important and interesting book that reviews some basic ideas about "cortical plasticity", which is the process that actually underlies intelligence and "mind". Cooper and his colleagues have made useful contributions over a long period of time, and most of their key ideas are covered in this book. There is also an admirable attempt to link models to experimental data. But while they provide some important tools and ideas, they are very far from understanding their nominal topic. Partly this reflects their understandable attachment to their own pet idea, the famous "BCM" rule. This was originally intended to solve the standard problem of runaway synapse strengthening in a simple Hebb model (Oja came up with an even more elegant solution around the same time and place). But then they slowly realised that the nonlinear form of their rule also conferred useful sensitivity to input statistics that goes beyond the Oja model, and the book explains this advance quite nicely. But really there are 2 separate problems here: sensitivity to sophisticated statistics, and dynamical stabilisation, and it's not clear that BCM is the uniquely best solution to either. Furthermore, attempt

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Author

Leon N. Cooper, Nathan Intrator, Brian S. Blais, Harel Z. Shouval

Publisher

World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9789812387462

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Science, Medicine