Reddit reviews Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code (Computational Neuroscience)

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Beginner:

• Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (I don't like this text, but it's fairly accessible to beginners.)
  
  
• Auditory Neuroscience
  
  
• Musicophilia
  
  Student:
  
  
• Neuroscience
  
  
• MATLAB for Neuroscientists
  
  
• An Introduction to the Psychology/Physiology of Hearing (sorry, that was cheating)
  
  Expert:
  
  
• Principles of Neural Science
  
  
• Spikes
  
  
• Signal Detection Theory and Psychophysics
  

Neuroscientist here who studies information.

Check out Fred Rieke and Bill Bialek's book "spikes." One of the best resources: http://www.amazon.com/Spikes-Exploring-Neural-Computational-Neuroscience/dp/0262681080/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323961329&sr=8-1.

The books you've mentioned are good, and I will also recommend "Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code" https://www.amazon.com/Spikes-Exploring-Neural-Computational-Neuroscience/dp/0262681080

This one ? https://www.amazon.com/Spikes-Exploring-Neural-Computational-Neuroscience/dp/0262681080/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1523091196&sr=1-1&keywords=spikes

Eliasmith is the "How to Build a Brain" nengo/spaun guy.

The brain is a computer. To the limit that language is all metaphor, this is the most accurate way of describing what the brain does. You have to begin with the appreciation that your desktop PC is not the sole definition of a "computer". The brain is a device that computes. Neurons do indeed perform algorithmic transformation, including addition/subtraction, division, integration, etc.

I highly suggest checking out this book for a gentle beginning example: https://grey.colorado.edu/CompCogNeuro/index.php?title=CCNBook/Main

This book has been recommended to me, but I found it too dense to be a fun read: http://www.amazon.com/Spikes-Exploring-Neural-Computational-Neuroscience/dp/0262681080

Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code is a great book for people from a physics background who want to learn neuroscience.

None.

Honestly, neuro is in such flux that much of what I learned in my intro class at the beginning of grad school is now wrong, superseded, or not interesting anymore.

I also think that it depends on what you are interested in. Systems? Cognitive? Molecular? Each of these things have a different set of 'useful' readings; I tend to be more of a systems/computational guy so I would recommend Spikes but ymmv