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Understanding the Nervous System: An Engineering Perspective
ISBN: 978-0-87942-296-7
Paperback
412 pages
January 1993, Wiley-IEEE Press
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  • Table of Contents
Preface.

Excitable Tissue.

Sensory Receptors.

Generation of the Action Potential.

Propagation of the Action Potential.

Dendritic Summation.

Lateral Inhibition.

Simple Neuronal Systems.

Skeletal Muscle Circuits.

The Auditory System.

The Eye as a Transducer.

Visual Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks, and "Household Chores".

About the Brain.

Index.