Introduction to neural and cognitive modeling, 2nd edition

To call Daniel Levine’s book an “introduction” to neural and cognitive modeling is somewhat of a misnomer. In fact, the book is an admixture of introductory material on neural network models and an overwhelming amount of material about the particular class of neural network models that the author favors – namely, those developed by Stephen Grossberg and his colleagues. The book attempts to lay out a systematic development of neural network modeling and is reasonably, if not completely, successful in the endeavor. Many major types of neural network models are at least briefly discussed, but an outsider reading this book would inevitably come away from it with a highly non standard view of the field…