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Principles of Neural Science
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The editors have done a masterful job of weaving together the biologic, the behavioral, and the clinical sciences into a single tapestry in which everyone from the molecular biologist to the practicing psychiatrist can find and appreciate his or her own research.Abstract:
I have developed "tennis elbow" from lugging this book around the past four weeks, but it is worth the pain, the effort, and the aspirin. It is also worth the (relatively speaking) bargain price. Including appendixes, this book contains 894 pages of text. The entire panorama of the neural sciences is surveyed and examined, and it is comprehensive in its scope, from genomes to social behaviors. The editors explicitly state that the book is designed as "an introductory text for students of biology, behavior, and medicine," but it is hard to imagine any audience, interested in any fragment of neuroscience at any level of sophistication, that would not enjoy this book. The editors have done a masterful job of weaving together the biologic, the behavioral, and the clinical sciences into a single tapestry in which everyone from the molecular biologist to the practicing psychiatrist can find and appreciate his orread more
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Neuromorphic computing using non-volatile memory
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Postmortem studies in mood disorders indicate altered numbers of neurons and glial cells
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At the interface: dynamic interactions of explicit and implicit language knowledge
TL;DR: The authors reviewed various psychological and neurobiological processes by which explicit knowledge of form-meaning associations impacts upon implicit language learning and found that implicit and explicit knowledge are dissociable but cooperative.
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Heterogeneity in Oscillator Networks: Are Smaller Worlds Easier to Synchronize?
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