Lectures in Neuroscience
Book • 2023
Lectures in Neuroscience is a conversational and accessible introduction to the brain.
Rafael Yuste guides readers through increasingly sophisticated topics, developing a unified framework for how the brain functions.
He describes how the brain is organized and how it develops, how neurons operate and form neural circuits, and how these circuits function as neural networks to generate behavior and mental states.
Yuste challenges the traditional view that the brain is an input-output machine that reacts reflexively to sensory stimuli.
Instead, he argues, the purpose of the brain is to make a predictive model of the world in order to anticipate the future and choose successful courses of action.
Rafael Yuste guides readers through increasingly sophisticated topics, developing a unified framework for how the brain functions.
He describes how the brain is organized and how it develops, how neurons operate and form neural circuits, and how these circuits function as neural networks to generate behavior and mental states.
Yuste challenges the traditional view that the brain is an input-output machine that reacts reflexively to sensory stimuli.
Instead, he argues, the purpose of the brain is to make a predictive model of the world in order to anticipate the future and choose successful courses of action.
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Mentioned by Gregory McNeff as a book that returns neuroscience to first principles with clarity.
Rafael Yuste, "Lectures in Neuroscience" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mentioned by Gregory McNeff, who selected it because it returns neuroscience to first principles.
Rafael Yuste, "Lectures in Neuroscience" (Columbia UP, 2023)
