The Adaptive Brain

The Adaptive Brain I

The Adaptive Brain II

Based upon a conference held in May 1993, this book discusses the intersection of neurobiology, cognitive psychology and computational approaches to cognition.

These books bring together recent neural models of vision, speech and language recognition and recall, cognitive self-organization, conditioning, reinforcement, motivation, attention, circadian rhythms, motor control, and certain mental disorders. In addition to unifying and predicting interdisciplinary data from psychology, psychophysiology, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, and anatomy, the work suggests new real-time circuit designs for computer vision and speech devices, self-organizing pattern recognition machines, parallel processors, and adaptive robots.