The human brain is increasingly understood as an information processor. Metaphors of the
brain as computer have dominated the cognitive sciences since the 1960s, and several …

ArgumentAfter more than half a century of eclipse, the mind (in contradistinction to brain and
behavior) emerged in the 1950s as a legitimate object of experimental and quantitative …

Mathematically rigorous descriptions of key hypotheses and theories are becoming more
common in neuroscience and are beginning to be applied to psychiatry. In this article two …

Over the course of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, cybernetics–as a practice, discipline, and
research field–encompassed and influenced work in fields such as information theory …

Warren S. McCulloch (1898–1969), American neuropsychiatrist and cybernetician, was a
maverick. Deemed a 'rebel genius' by neurophysiologist Ralph W. Gerard, McCulloch …

The life and work of a scientist who spent his career crossing disciplinary boundaries—from
experimental neurology to psychiatry to cybernetics to engineering. Warren S. McCulloch …

The human brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion
synapses. For more than a century, a diverse array of researchers searched for a language …

Computational models have become an integral part of basic neuroscience and have
facilitated some of the major advances in the field. More recently, such models have also …

This book contains selected contributions of papers, many presented at the Second
International Workshop on Neural Modeling of Brain Disorders, as well as a few additional …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the computational study of the brain or cognitive
disorders; a model network is constructed that is capable of performing some basic …