Charles C. Thomas Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1963 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, under dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 421 pages
many illustrations 1st edition Contents, Chapitres : Contributors, Foreword, Contents, x, Text, 411 pages - 1. Introduction : What is information theory - Binary representation of information - Information processing theory - 2. Information in biological systems : Genetic control of protein synthesis - Coding by purine and pyrimidine moieties in animals, plants and bacteria - Virus action and replication - The information concept in ecology, some aspects of information-gathering behavior in plankton - Exchange of information about patterns of human behavior - 3. Neurophysiological aspects of information storage and transfer : Information storage in nerve cells - How can models from information theory be used in neurophyiology - Neural mechanisms of decision making - Anastomotic nets combating noise - 4. The human nervous system : The individual as an information processing system - Information processing in the time domain - 5. Summary and general discussion - Appendix : The logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity - Index near fine copy, no markings, large missing of paper on the corner of the dust-jacket on the bottom-side corner, the front-part is fine