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"This book is for students and researchers who have a specific interest in learning and memory and want to understand how computational models can be integrated into experimental research on the hippocampus and learning. It emphasizes the function of brain structures as they give rise to behaviour, rather than the molecular or neuronal details. It also emphasizes the process of modelling, rather than the mathematical details of the models themselves. The book is divided into two parts. The first part provides a tutorial introduction to topics in neuroscience, the psychology of learning and memory, and the theory of neural network models. The second part, the core of the book, reviews computational models of how the hippocampus cooperates with other brain structures -including the entorhinal cortex, basal forebrain, cerebellum, and primary sensory and motor cortices - to support learning and memory in both animals and humans. The book assumes no prior knowledge of computational modelling or mathematics. For those who wish to delve more deeply into the formal details of the models, there are optional ""mathboxes"" and appendices. The book also includes extensive references and suggestions for further readings."

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Gateway to Memory is an exciting and badly needed text that integrates computational and neurobiological approaches to memory. Authoritative and clearly written, this book will be valuable for students and researchers alike. - Daniel L. Schacter, Professor and Chair of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Searching for Memory

Gateway to Memory is a valuable addition to the introductory textsdescribing neural network models of learning and memory. The early chapterspresent abstract models of brain and learning in an intuitively appealingstyle that is accessible to lay readers as well as advanced students ofnetwork modeling. Later chapters, relevant to experts as well as novices,advance cutting-edge ideas and models that are tested closely byexperimental results on learning. A particular virtue is the closeinterchange the authors maintain throughout between predictions ofcompeting models and experimental results from animal and human learning. Gordon H. Bower, Department of Psychology, Stanford University Gateway to Memory is a valuable addition to the introductory textsdescribing neural network models of learning and memory. The early chapterspresent abstract models of brain and learning in an intuitively appealingstyle that is accessible to lay readers as well as advanced students ofnetwork modeling. Later chapters, relevant to experts as well as novices,advance cutting-edge ideas and models that are tested closely byexperimental results on learning. A particular virtue is the closeinterchange the authors maintain throughout between predictions ofcompeting models and experimental results from animal and human learning. Gordon H. Bower , Department of Psychology, Stanford University Gateway to Memory is an exciting and badly needed text that integratescomputational and neurobiological approaches to memory. Authoritative and clearly written, this book will be valuable for students and researchers alike. Daniel L. Schacter , Professor and Chair of Psychology, HarvardUniversity, and author of Searching for Memory

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Mark A. Gluck is Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Rutgers University-Newark. Catherine E. Myers is Research Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University-Newark.

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