The future of the brain : essay by the world's leading neuroscientists /
edited by Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman.
- xiii, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Building atlases of the brain / Whole brain neuroimaging and virtual reality / Project MindScope / The connectome as a DNA sequencing problem / Rosetta brain / Understanding the cortex through grid cells / Recording from many neurons simultaneously: from measurement to meaning / Network neuroscience / Large-scale neuroscience: from analytics to insight / Whole brain simulation / Building a behaving brain / The neurobiology of language / Translating the genome in human neuroscience / Consciousness, big science, and conceptual clarity / From circuits to behavior: a bridge too far? / Lessons from evolution / Lessons from the genome / The computational brain / Neurotechnology / The miswired brain, genes, and mental illness / Neural dust: an untethered approach to chronic brain-machine interfaces / Neuroscience in 2064: a look at the last century / Mike Hawrylycz with Chinh Dang, Christof Koch, and Hongkui Zeng -- Misha B. Ahrens -- Christof Kock with Clay Reid, Hongkui Zeng, Stefan Mihalas, Mike Hawrylycz, John Philips, Chinh Dang, and Allan Jones -- Anthony Zador -- George Church with Adam Marblestone and Reza Kalhor -- May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser -- Krishna V. Shenoy -- Olaf Sporns -- Jeremy Freeman -- Sean Hill -- Chris Eliasmith -- David Poeppel -- Simon E. Fisher -- Ned Block -- Matteo Carandini -- Leah Krubitzer -- Arthur Caplan with Nathan Kunzler -- Gary Marcus -- John Donoghue -- Kevin J. Mitchell -- Michael M. Maharbiz with Dongjin Seo, Jose M. Carmena, Jan M. Rabaey, and Elad Alon -- Christof Koch and Gary Marcus. Mapping the brain : Computation : Simulating the brain : Language : Skeptics : Implications : Afterword :
An precedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, this collection of essays takes readers to the absolute frontiers of science. They shed light on the breathtaking implications of brain science for medicine, psychiatry, and even human consciousness itself.
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