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Title: Good serious reading, without the need for the maths
Review: I had wanted to learn about artifical neural nets (ANNs), but didn't want to buy a research or teaching text on the subject, on the grounds that I didn't want to get bogged down with specific technical applications. (Signature authentication, tank recognition, car steering systems, etc.)This proved to be the ideal book for me... introducing the concepts of ANNs in the context of comparisons with their natural equivalents. The thrust, therefore, was on the insights that ANN research could give for psychology/neurology, and the lessons that psychology/neurology could give to ANN research.Despite its welcome lack of heavy mathematics, it is a serious overview of the subject, worthy of reading at the research level.
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