The computational brain is the first unified and broadly accessible book to bring together computational concepts and behavioral data within a neurobiological framework churchland and sejnowski address the foundational ideas of the emerging field of computational neuroscience examine a diverse range of neural network models and consider future directions of the field. It is one of the first books to bring together computational concepts and behavioral data within a neurobiological framework aimed at a broad audience of neuroscientists computer scientists cognitive scientists and philosophers the computational brain is written for both expert and novice this anniversary edition offers a new preface by the authors that puts the book in the context of current research. The computational brain is the first unified and broadly accessible book to bring together computational concepts and behavioral data within a neurobiological framework churchland and sejnowski address the foundational ideas of the emerging field of computational neuroscience examine a diverse range of neural network models and consider future directions of the field a bradford book computational neuroscience series. The ultimate goal of computational neuroscience is to explain how electrical and chemical signals are used in the brain to represent and process information it explains the biophysical mechanisms of computation in neurons computer simulations of neural circuits and models of learning. The specialty of computational neuroscience in freiburg is the systematic study of brain dynamics the concerted evolution of neuronal activity in brain networks over time the central institution for computational neuroscience in freiburg is the bernstein center freiburg