Planned Reading List

I plan to read the following textbooks and books. This list will be updated as my interests change. Books with a high priority are starred (*), and books with a low priority are underscored (_) until I can find a better copy.

Textbooks

Neuroscience

• _Spikes - Exploring the Neural Code
• _Vision Science - Photons to Phenomenology
• Biophysics of Computation - Information Processing in Single Neurons
• Vision - A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
• Language in Our Brain - The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity
• Open MIND - philosophy and the mind sciences in the 21st century
• The Neuroscience of Intelligence
• Theoretical Neuroscience - Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems
• Brain Computation as Hierarchical Abstraction
• Seeing (2nd Ed.)

Neuromorphic Computing

• _Neural Engineering - Computation, Representation, and Dynamics in Neurobiological Systems
• _Introduction to VLSI Systems
• _Analog VLSI and Neural Systems

Artificial Intelligence

• Parallel Distributed Processing - Foundations (Vol. 1)
• Parallel Distributed Processing - Psychological and Biological Models (Vol. 2)

Psychology

• Biopsychology (10th Ed.)

Books

Neuroscience

• Consciousness Explained
• The Brain That Changes Itself
• Biology’s First Law: The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems
• Darwin’s on the Origin of Species: A Modern Rendition
• The Blind Watchmaker
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
• Disordered Mind
• How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
• Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
• The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves
• Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
• The Ancient Origins of Consciousness: How the Brain Created Experience