Formal modelling in Cognitive Science 1: Maths for Neural and Connectionist Modelling
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Literature There are many mathematics textbooks at intermediate level: e.g. [Boas, 1966]. A good book that we use, is Greenberg’s [Greenberg, 1998]. It is a bit expensive, but a good investment. By now the internet is also a good resource (with the usual caveats) http: //mathworld.wolfram.com contains an encyclopedia of mathematics. A good introductory book in neural computation is Trappenberg’s [Trappenberg, 2002]. A more formal but very good book on neural networks: [Hertz et al., 1991]. See lecture notes Neural Computation on http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mvanross for more references and applications to neural systems and literature relevant to neural modelling.
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