TY - BOOK ID - 85899688 TI - The Spike PY - 2021 SN - 0691213518 0691213518 9780691213514 9780691195889 PB - Princeton, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Neural transmission. KW - Neurosciences. KW - Neural sciences KW - Neurological sciences KW - Neuroscience KW - Medical sciences KW - Nervous system KW - Nerve transmission KW - Nervous transmission KW - Neurotransmission KW - Synaptic transmission KW - Transmission of nerve impulses KW - Neural circuitry KW - Neurophysiology KW - Neurotransmitters KW - AI. KW - Dean Burnett. KW - DeepMind. KW - Google Brain. KW - How Emotions Are Made. KW - Lisa Feldman Barrett. KW - Matthew Cobb. KW - The Idea of the Brain. KW - The Idiot Brain. KW - action potential. KW - artificial intelligence. KW - axon. KW - basal ganglia. KW - brain as a computer. KW - brain disorders. KW - cognition. KW - cognitive. KW - connectome. KW - connectomics. KW - consciousness. KW - cortex. KW - decision making. KW - machine learning. KW - motor cortex. KW - motor regions. KW - neural coding. KW - neural computation. KW - neural networks. KW - predictive brain. KW - seeing. KW - vision. KW - visual cortex. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85899688 AB - The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work. We see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate with one another, sending blips of voltage through our sensory and motor regions. Neuroscientists call these blips “spikes.” Spikes enable us to do everything: talk, eat, run, see, plan, and decide. In The Spike, Mark Humphries takes readers on the epic journey of a spike through a single, brief reaction. In vivid language, Humphries tells the story of what happens in our brain, what we know about spikes, and what we still have left to understand about them.Drawing on decades of research in neuroscience, Humphries explores how spikes are born, how they are transmitted, and how they lead us to action. He dives into previously unanswered mysteries: Why are most neurons silent? What causes neurons to fire spikes spontaneously, without input from other neurons or the outside world? Why do most spikes fail to reach any destination? Humphries presents a new vision of the brain, one where fundamental computations are carried out by spontaneous spikes that predict what will happen in the world, helping us to perceive, decide, and react quickly enough for our survival.Traversing neuroscience’s expansive terrain, The Spike follows a single electrical response to illuminate how our extraordinary brains work. ER -