Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Contributors xi
4. Foreword to the Princeton Science Library Edition xiii
5. Preface xix
6. MAPPING THE BRAIN
7. Building Atlases of the Brain 1
8. Whole Brain Neuroimaging and Virtual Reality 17
9. Project MindScope 25
10. The Connectome as a DNA Sequencing Problem 40
11. Rosetta Brain 50
12. COMPUTATION
13. Introduction 65
14. Understanding the Cortex through Grid Cells 67
15. Recording from Many Neurons Simultaneously: From Measurement to Meaning 78
16. Network Neuroscience 90
17. Large-Scale Neuroscience: From Analytics to Insight 100
18. SIMULATING THE BRAIN
19. Introduction 109
20. Whole Brain Simulation 111
21. Building a Behaving Brain 125
22. LANGUAGE
23. Introduction 137
24. The Neurobiology of Language 139
25. Translating the Genome in Human Neuroscience 149
26. SKEPTICS
27. Introduction 159
28. Consciousness, Big Science, and Conceptual Clarity 161
29. From Circuits to Behavior: A Bridge Too Far? 177
30. Lessons from Evolution 186
31. Lessons from the Genome 194
32. The Computational Brain 205
33. IMPLICATIONS
34. Introduction 217
35. Neurotechnology 219
36. The Miswired Brain, Genes, and Mental Illness 234
37. Neural Dust: An Untethered Approach to Chronic Brain-Machine Interfaces 243
38. AFTERWORD
39. Neuroscience in 2064: A Look at the Last Century 255
40. Glossary 271
41. Index 275