Brain Computations and Principles; and AI (Edmund T. Rolls)

# Brain Computations Source: [https://www.oxcns.org/b18text.html](https://www.oxcns.org/b18text.html) Brain Computations and Principles; and AI *Oxford University Press\.* ISBN 9780197920961 doi: 10\.1093/oso/9780197920961\.001\.0001 Brain Computations and Principles; and AI considers what is computed by each brain region, how it is computed, and how the connectivity between brain regions facilitates the computations\.The book also considers the principles of brain computations\. The book also compares brain computations to those in AI, and argues that they are very different, but can usefully complement each other\. The book focusses on the primate including human brain, to make it relevant to understanding the human brain in health and disease including mental disorders\. Brain Computations and Principles; and AI is about how the brain works\. In order to understand this, it is essential to know what is computed by different brain regions; how the computations are performed; and how the brain regions are connected\. The aim of this book is to elucidate what is computed in different brain systems; and to describe current computational approaches and models of how each of these brain systems computes\. Understanding the brain in this way has enormous potential for understanding ourselves better in health and in disease\. Potential applications of this understanding are to the treatment of the brain in disease; and to artificial intelligence which will benefit from knowledge of how the brain performs many of its extraordinarily impressive functions\. This book is pioneering in taking this approach to brain function: to consider what is computed by many of our brain systems; and how it is computed, and updates the earlier book: Rolls \(2023\) Brain Computations and Connectivity: Oxford University Press by much new evidence and by a set of 16 added chapters on the Principles of Brain Computation\. Brain Computations and Principles; and AI provides a computational framework for understanding brain function in health and disease\. The book also compares brain computations to AI computations, and suggests how each could benefit from the other\. Brain Computations and Connectivity will be of interest to all scientists interested in brain function and how the brain works, whether they are from neuroscience, or from medical sciences including neurology and psychiatry, or from the area of computational science including machine learning and artificial intelligence, or from areas such as theoretical physics\. The Gatsby Charitable Foundation is thanked for a grant towards the cost of enabling this book to be Open Access\.