Book description
Two distinguished neuroscientists distil general principles from more than a century of scientific study, āreverse engineeringā the brain to understand its design.
Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged. And yet a principled frameworkā¦
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1 author picked Principles of Neural Design as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The authors hilariously claim in their acknowledgements that this is a short book. It is not. Instead, it is a volume that explains ten key principles of why brains work the way they do, from why they do so much computation with chemistry to the irreducible smallness of a brainās components. A densely argued, fiercely detailed book, not one for the faint of heart ā but one that has pride of place on the shelves of many neuroscientists, mine included.
From Mark's list on how brains actually work.
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