David Marr is known for his research on the brain in the late 60s and 70s, becoming one of the main founders of Computational Neuroscience when neuroscience was in its infancy. Written by distinguished contributors, this book evaluates the extent to which his theories are still valid and identifies areas that need to be altered.
Professor Lucia M. Vaina received an MS in mathematics from University of Timisoara and Pavia, PhD in mathematical logic from the Sorbonne and MD PhD (neuroscience) from the University of Toulouse. Her postdoctoral training was at UC Berkeley, Stanford and MIT. She joined the faculty of Boston University and Harvard Medical School in 1986 and in 1995 she was promoted to tenured Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. She is among the first visual neuroscientists that studied the effects of lesions on visual motion perception in humans, by using psychophysics, biologically constrained computational modeling, and MRI, fMRI and MEG. She characterized the cortical mechanisms underlying visual motion tasks, and alternate mechanisms used by motion impaired patients. She studied psychophysically&computationally aspects of perceptual learning of motion discrimination and used fMRI to elucidate their neural substrate Professor Richard E. Passingham received his BA from the University of Oxford and his Ph.D in Psychology from the University of London. He returned to Oxford in 1970 and was made a University Lecturer and Fellow of Wadham College in 1976. He was amongst the first to use brain imaging to study human cognition, starting in 1988 at the MRC Cyclotron Unit at the Hammersmith Hospital where he was an Honorary Senior Lecturer. In 1996 he moved to the newly founded Wellcome Centre for NeuroImaging at the University of London where he was an Honorary Principal. He was made Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford in 1997.
Show moreDavid Marr is known for his research on the brain in the late 60s and 70s, becoming one of the main founders of Computational Neuroscience when neuroscience was in its infancy. Written by distinguished contributors, this book evaluates the extent to which his theories are still valid and identifies areas that need to be altered.
Professor Lucia M. Vaina received an MS in mathematics from University of Timisoara and Pavia, PhD in mathematical logic from the Sorbonne and MD PhD (neuroscience) from the University of Toulouse. Her postdoctoral training was at UC Berkeley, Stanford and MIT. She joined the faculty of Boston University and Harvard Medical School in 1986 and in 1995 she was promoted to tenured Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. She is among the first visual neuroscientists that studied the effects of lesions on visual motion perception in humans, by using psychophysics, biologically constrained computational modeling, and MRI, fMRI and MEG. She characterized the cortical mechanisms underlying visual motion tasks, and alternate mechanisms used by motion impaired patients. She studied psychophysically&computationally aspects of perceptual learning of motion discrimination and used fMRI to elucidate their neural substrate Professor Richard E. Passingham received his BA from the University of Oxford and his Ph.D in Psychology from the University of London. He returned to Oxford in 1970 and was made a University Lecturer and Fellow of Wadham College in 1976. He was amongst the first to use brain imaging to study human cognition, starting in 1988 at the MRC Cyclotron Unit at the Hammersmith Hospital where he was an Honorary Senior Lecturer. In 1996 he moved to the newly founded Wellcome Centre for NeuroImaging at the University of London where he was an Honorary Principal. He was made Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford in 1997.
Show moreIntroduction
Richard E. Passingham: Marr's views on the functions of the
cerebellum, neocortex and archicortex
Section 1: A Theory of Cerebellar Cortex
1: Takeru Honda and Masao Ito: Development from Marr's theory of
the cerebellum
2: Egidio D'Angelo: Challenging Marr's theory of cerebellum
3: Paul Dean & John Porrill: The importance of Marr's three levels
of analysis for understanding cerebellar function
Section 2: Simple Memory: A Theory for Archicortex
4: Alessandro Treves: The dentate gyrus, defining a new memory of
David Marr
5: Michael E. Hasselmo: Marr's influence on the standard model of
hippocampus, and the need for more theoretical advances
6: Suzanna Becker: Marr's simple memory theory of archicortex, then
and now: four decades later, things are not quite as simple
Section 3: A theory of Neocortex
7: Rodney Douglas and Kevan Martin: Visions of the neocortex
8: David Willshaw and Peter Dayan: Unsupervized yearning: Marr's
theory of the neocortex
David Marr
10: Lucia M Vaina: David Marr 1945-1980
Professor Lucia M. Vaina received an MS in mathematics from
University of Timisoara and Pavia, PhD in mathematical logic from
the Sorbonne and MD PhD (neuroscience) from the University of
Toulouse. Her postdoctoral training was at UC Berkeley, Stanford
and MIT. She joined the faculty of Boston University and Harvard
Medical School in 1986 and in 1995 she was promoted to tenured
Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. She is
among the first
visual neuroscientists that studied the effects of lesions on
visual motion perception in humans, by using psychophysics,
biologically constrained computational modeling, and MRI, fMRI and
MEG. She
characterized the cortical mechanisms underlying visual motion
tasks, and alternate mechanisms used by motion impaired patients.
She studied psychophysically&computationally aspects of
perceptual learning of motion discrimination and used fMRI to
elucidate their neural substrate
Professor Richard E. Passingham received his BA from the University
of Oxford and his Ph.D in Psychology from the University of London.
He returned to Oxford in 1970 and was made a University Lecturer
and Fellow of Wadham College in 1976. He was amongst the first to
use brain imaging to study human cognition, starting in 1988 at the
MRC Cyclotron Unit at the Hammersmith Hospital where he was an
Honorary Senior Lecturer. In 1996 he moved to the newly founded
Wellcome Centre for NeuroImaging at
the University of London where he was an Honorary Principal. He was
made Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford in 1997.
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