Brain architecture

Since biological systems can reasonably cope with some of these problems, the intuition behind neural nets is that computing systems based on the architecture of the brain can better emulate human cognitive behavior than systems based on symbol manipulation. Unfortunately, the processing characteristics of the brain are as yet incompletely understood. Consequendy, computational systems based on brain architecture are highly simplified models of thek biological analogues. To make this distinction clear, neural nets are often referred to as artificial neural networks. 

But this is exactly what one would expect for a brain architecture that operated according to the habit routine model of cognitive function. The environmental data merely provides cues for the elaboration of the far more complex informational entity of which we become aware, the habit routine complex, it is far more complex, because it is generated from the entirety of previous experience stored in memory, whereas the actual environmental data is quite limited in scope not least by the limits of the sensory organs themselves, in size and complexity, the nerve pathways carrying the primary sensory information to the... 

Stein et al. (1991) reviewed the neuropathological findings observed in human autopsies of people with CH and EC. These findings include normal brain architecture, minimal cerebral atrophy, a reduced number of pyramidal and Betz neurons in each layer V, and abnormal axonal and dendritic development of the pyramidal neurons in the cerebral cortex and brainstem. Retarded myelination (Duckett, 1994) and diminished size of pyramidal tracts may also be observed (Eayrs, 1960). 

Harzsch S, Hansson BS (2008) Brain architecture in the terrestrial hermit crab Coenobita clypeatus (Anomura, Coenobitidae), a crustacean with a good aerial sense of smell. BMC Neurosci 9 58... 

Drewes LR. Molecular architecture of the brain microvasculature. J Mol Neurosci 2001 16 93-98. 

Adhesion molecules are indispensable components of nervous tissue. They adhere cell membranes to each other with varying degrees of strength and translate adhesion into cellular responses via signal-transduction pathways (see, for example, [45]). The major classes of adhesion molecules, the integrins, IgCAMs and cadherins, act cooperatively [46] and in concert to coordinate brain development and maturation and, in adulthood, to maintain the normal tissue architecture. 

Study of the operational mechanism of biological systems, particularly those of the living brain, and the use of these results in the redesign of computer software and hardware architecture based on semiconductor technology (Section 1.2). 

Reif A, Lesch KP (2003) Toward a molecular architecture of personality. Behav Brain Res 139 1-20... 

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The brain three pounds of soft matter that can take a split second of experience and freeze it forever in its cellular connections. A hundred billion nerve cells are the architecture of our experience. Is Proust still here in the wet organ balanced in my palm Could we reconstruct his memories Would Proust approve such a breach of privacy ... 

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