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Information from Structure: A Sketch of Neuroanatomy

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Models of Neural Networks I

Part of the book series: Physics of Neural Networks ((NEURAL NETWORKS))

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After the discovery of electrical phenomena in brains, which suggested recording with electrodes as the obvious approach to the problem of cerebral function, the field of neuroanatomy underwent a long period of stagnation. It is now once more an important source of information, which model makers are tapping abundantly (those who are not would be well advised to consider doing so).

I will sketch a short overview of the main trends in neuroanatomy, past and present, and then try to establish something like a method for us to follow when translating the information on the structure of a brain into statements about its operation.

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  1. Valentino Braitenberg
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Electronics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel

    Eytan Domany

  2. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität München, D-85747, Garching bei München, Germany

    J. Leo van Hemmen

  3. Department of Physics and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Klaus Schulten

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Braitenberg, V. (1995). Information from Structure: A Sketch of Neuroanatomy. In: Domany, E., van Hemmen, J.L., Schulten, K. (eds) Models of Neural Networks I. Physics of Neural Networks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79814-6_2

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