Spikes

By Fred Rieke, David Warland, Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck , William Bialek

Book cover of Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code

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What does it mean to say that a certain set of spikes is the right answer to a computational problem? In what sense does a spike train convey information about the sensory world? Spikes begins by providing precise formulations of these and related questions about the representation of sensory signals…

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1 author picked Spikes as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Mark Humphries

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A magnificent synthesis of Bialek and colleagues’ research into how spikes from neurons send information. A strong contender for the most readable serious science book ever published. Even if you only understand a quarter of it (as I did on first reading as a math-shy grad student), the sheer quantity of ideas and the flow of the prose is mind-blowing. As essential a read now as it was in 1997, these ideas have not dated one bit.

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