This is the 4th edition of the online, freely available textbook, providing a complete, self-contained introduction to the field of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, where computer models of the brain are used to understand a wide range of cognitive functions, including perception, attention, motor control, learning, memory, language, and executive function.
The first part of this textbook develops a coherent set of computational and neural principles that capture the behavior of networks of interconnected neurons, and the second part applies these principles to understand the above-listed cognitive functions.
Formats
Please use the following links to download the formatted version of the book:
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PDF — best for printing
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ePub — opens in e.g., Mac iBooks
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Kindle / MOBI — you can email this to yourself at your amazon kindle account to get it on your device: https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/email
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Amazon.com — you can pay $2.99 (lowest price possible) to have Amazon upload the book to your kindle, or roughly $35 for them to send you an on-demand paperback print version (in color)
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HTML — single big HTML file — NOTE: this does not display all of the math correctly, so you should use one of the other formats above for Chapters 2 and 4.
Simulation Exercises
The simulation exercises that go with the book are available under this same organization in github, in the sims
repository: https://github.com/CompCogNeuro/sims
If you want more background information and to see the underlying code, the simulations are implemented with the Go / Python version of the emergent framework / toolkit: https://github.com/emer/emergent
Lecture Videos
Thanks to Covid-19, video lectures by O’Reilly @ UC Davis have been recorded: YouTube Playlist
Citation
Please use this citation for the text:
O’Reilly, R. C., Munakata, Y., Frank, M. J., Hazy, T. E., and Contributors (2012). Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. Wiki Book, 4th Edition (2020). URL: https://CompCogNeuro.org
(you could update year to 2020 but maybe better to just keep using the 2012 citation — either way is fine)
BibTeX:
@BOOK{OReillyMunakataFrankEtAl12,
author={Randall C. O'Reilly and Yuko Munakata and Michael J. Frank and Thomas E. Hazy and Contributors},
title={Computational Cognitive Neuroscience},
year={2012},
publisher={Online Book, 4th Edition, URL: \url{https://CompCogNeuro.org}},
url={https://github.com/CompCogNeuro/ed4},
}
Syllabi
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UC Davis (O’Reilly): https://ccnlab.org/teaching/ccn
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Brown (Frank): http://ski.clps.brown.edu/cogsim.html
GitHub Source
The source for this book is at: https://github.com/CompCogNeuro/ed4
It was originally written in MediaWiki and hosted on grey.colorado.edu
This version is written in markdown format, and converted into various other end-user formats using pandoc with the assistance of the https://github.com/bmc/ebook-template python script.