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Information Theory in Neuroscience
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ISBN: 3038976652 3038976644 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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As the ultimate information processing device, the brain naturally lends itself to being studied with information theory. The application of information theory to neuroscience has spurred the development of principled theories of brain function, and has led to advances in the study of consciousness, as well as to the development of analytical techniques to crack the neural code—that is, to unveil the language used by neurons to encode and process information. In particular, advances in experimental techniques enabling the precise recording and manipulation of neural activity on a large scale now enable for the first time the precise formulation and the quantitative testing of hypotheses about how the brain encodes and transmits the information used for specific functions across areas. This Special Issue presents twelve original contributions on novel approaches in neuroscience using information theory, and on the development of new information theoretic results inspired by problems in neuroscience.


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The Pre-Socratics: a collection of critical essays
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ISBN: 0691020884 9781400863204 1400863201 9780691608273 069160827X 0691636745 1306985277 Year: 1993 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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This collection introduces readers to some of the most respected Pre-Socratic scholarship of the twentieth century. It includes translations of important works from European scholars that were previously unavailable in English and incorporates the major topics and approaches of contemporary scholarship. Here is an essential book for students and scholars alike. "Students of the Pre-Socratics must be grateful to Mourelatos and his publishers for making these essays available to a wider public."--T. H. Irwin, American Journal of Philology "Mourelatos is a superb editor, and teaching Pre-Socratics in the future with this collection on the reading list will not only be easier but also better."--Jorgen Mejer, The Classical World "The editor has done his work judiciously. It would be difficult to devise a better balance between different parts of the subject."--Edward Hussey, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences "[This book] will undoubtedly become an indispensable aid for beginning and advanced students of the Pre-Socratics."--David E. Hahm, IsisOriginally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Philosophy, Ancient --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- History of philosophy --- Antiquity --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Academic skepticism. --- Ad hoc hypothesis. --- Agnosticism. --- Ambiguity. --- Anaxagoras. --- Anaximander. --- Anaximenes. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Antinomy. --- Aphorism. --- Apologue. --- Aristotle. --- Arthur Schopenhauer. --- Astral body. --- Atomism. --- Callicles. --- Classical element. --- Concept. --- Consciousness. --- Contradiction. --- Conventionalism. --- Critique. --- Democritus. --- Deprecation. --- Dialectician. --- Divine law. --- Dualism (philosophy of mind). --- Dualism. --- Empedocles. --- Empiricism. --- Eristic. --- Etymology. --- Existence. --- Explanation. --- Family resemblance. --- First principle. --- Form of life (philosophy). --- Formal fallacy. --- Good and evil. --- Heraclitus of Ephesus. --- Hippasus. --- Historicism. --- Idealism. --- Identity of indiscernibles. --- Infinite regress. --- Leucippus. --- Leveling (philosophy). --- Logical extreme. --- Logical reasoning. --- Logos. --- Lucretius. --- Magna Moralia. --- Materialism. --- Middle term. --- Modern physics. --- Moral relativism. --- Multitude. --- Mutatis mutandis. --- Mythopoeic thought. --- Naturalness (physics). --- Neoplatonism. --- Noema. --- Nous. --- Ontology. --- Paradox. --- Parmenides. --- Perspectivism. --- Philolaus. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Physics (Aristotle). --- Plato. --- Positivism. --- Pre-Socratic philosophy. --- Principle of sufficient reason. --- Pseudoscience. --- Pyrrhonism. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Relativism. --- Religion. --- Sophistication. --- Subjectivism. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Concept of Mind. --- The Philosopher. --- The Soul of the World. --- Themistius. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Truism. --- Unconscious inference. --- Unity of opposites. --- Verisimilitude. --- Wesley C. Salmon. --- Xenophanes. --- Zeno of Elea. --- Zeno's paradoxes.

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