Published December, 2010
By L.M. Vaina, Scott A. Beardsley and Simon K. Rushton
Publisher: Springer
Series: Synthese Library
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Optic flow provides all the information necessary to guide a walking human or a mobile robot to its target. Over the past 50 years, a body of research on optic flow spanning the disciplines of neurophysiology, psychophysics, experimental psychology, brain imaging and computational modelling has accumulated.

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Published December, 2010
By Georg Gosztonyi
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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It has been recognized that viruses can induce neuronal damage by a variety of mechanisms. The specific mechanisms of damage involved in retroviral infections and in prion diseases of the nervous system are reviewed, and finally how autoimmune diseases can lead to neuronal damage.

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Published December, 2010
By Ulrich Ratsch, Michael M. Richter and Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Cognition and artificial intelligence are entering a new era in which the aspects of symbolic manipulation and of connectionism begin to come together. The book covers aspects of fuzzy logic, case based reasoning, learning as well as meaning, language, and consciousness.

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Published December, 2010
By Timothy C. Tricas and Samuel H. Gruber
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes
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The papers on elasmobranch sensory biology and behavior address questions on hearing, the lateral line, electroreception, the brain, orientation behavior, chemical irritants, feeding, and reproduction.

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Published December, 2010
By Peter L. Lutz, Goran E. Nilsson, Howard M. Prentice, P.L. Lutz, G.E. Nilsson and H.M. Prentice
Publisher: Springer
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The Brain Without Oxygen: Causes of failure - Physiological and molecular mechanisms for survival, Third edition, discusses the mechanisms of brain hypoxia tolerance in these exceptional vertebrates, which include diving marine mammals, high altitude dwellers and the hibernating mammal.

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Published December, 2010
By Mark A. Changizi
Publisher: Springer
Series: Synthese Library
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In The Brain from 25,000 Feet, Mark A. The author tackles such questions as why the brain is folded, and why animals have as many limbs as they do, explaining how these relate to principles of network optimality.

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Published December, 2010
By Bin He
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Bioelectric Engineering
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Over the past several decades, much progress has been made in understanding the mechanisms of electrical activity in biological tissues and systems, and for developing non-invasive functional imaging technologies to aid clinical diagnosis of dysfunction in the human body.

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Published December, 2010
By Andrea C. Gore
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Published December, 2010
By Yves Christen, Y. Christen, C.E. Henderson, D. Green, J.A. Mariani and J. Mariani
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences
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How do specific insults in particular human or mouse neuro-degenerative diseases translate into mechanisms that will not only allow us to better understand what is happening in these patients but also, with luck, allow for development of more efficient and specific drugs in the future?

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Published December, 2010
By Joseph Johnson, Jean-Pierre Gossard, Rejean Dubuc and Arlette Kolta
Publisher: Elsevier (Elsevier Science Ltd)
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How do we anticipate the consequences of choices and how is the brain able to represent these choice options and their potential consequences? How are different options evaluated and how is a preferred option selected and implemented? This title focuses on the interplay of mind and motion-the bidirectional link between thought and action.

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