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"The book is clear, cogent, and systematic. It provides much more than the essential nuts-and-bolts - it also leads the reader to learn to think about the empirical enterprise writ large...This book should be given a privileged spot on the bookshelf of every teacher, student, and researcher in the behavioral and cognitive sciences." --Stephen M. Kosslyn, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology, Dean of Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA "This is an excellent book that should be on the desk of any neuroscientist or psychologist who wants to analyze and understand his or her own data by using MATLAB...Several books with MATLAB toolboxes exist; I find this one special both for its clarity and its focus on problems related to neuroscience and cognitive psychology." --Nikos Logothetis, Director, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany "MATLAB for Neuroscientists provides a unique and relatively comprehensive introduction to the MATLAB programming language in the context of brain sciences...The book would work well as a supplementary source for an introductory coursein computational analysis and modeling in visual neuroscience, for graduate students or advanced undergraduates." --Eero P. Simoncelli, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor, Neural Science, Mathematics, and Psychology, New York University, New York, USA

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Matlab is the accepted standard for scientific computing, used globally in virtually all Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology laboratories. For instance, SPM, the most used software for the analysis and manipulation of fMRI images in research and clinical practice is fully programmed in matlab, and its use of the possibility to allow for sophisticated software modules to be freely added to the software has established it as the by far dominant software in the field. Many universities now offer, or are beginning to offer matlab introductory courses in their neuroscience and psychology programs. Nevertheless, so far there hasn't been a textbook specific to this market, and the use of the plethora of existing engineering focused Matlab textbooks is notoriously difficult for teaching the package in those environments. This is the first comprehensive teaching resource and textbook for the teaching of Matlab in the Neurosciences and in Psychology. Matlab is unique in that it can be used to learn the entire empirical and experimental process, including stimulus generation, experimental control, data collection, data analysis and modeling. Thus a wide variety of computational problems can be addressed in a single programming environment. The idea is to empower advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students by allowing them to design and implement their own analytical tools. As students advance in their research careers, they will have achieved the fluency required to understand and adapt more specialized tools as opposed to treating them as "black boxes". Virtually all computational approaches in the book are covered by using genuine experimental data that are either collected as part of the lab project or were collected in the labs of the authors, providing the casual student with the look and feel of real data. In some rare cases, published data from classical papers are used to illustrate important concepts, giving students a computational understanding of critically important research. The ability to effectively use computers in research is necessary in an academic environment that is increasingly focused on quantitative issues. Matlab represents an ideal language of scientific computing. It is based on powerful linear algebra structures which lend themselves to empirical problems on the one hand, while at the same time allowing the student to make rapid problem-oriented progress (particularly in terms of visualization of data points) without having to lose focus by worrying too much about memory allocation and other "plumbing" minutiae as would be required in other, more low-level programming languages such as C or C++. Currently, there are several books that provide introductions to Matlab that are either too generic and fundamental or too irrelevant for neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists who typically face a very circumscribed range of problems in data collection, data analysis and signal processing. Some non-book tutorials and primers that are in use in the community are typically out of date. Matlab versions are usually not backwards compatible. Many commands and functions used in older tutorials and primers, such as "flops" won't work in current versions of Matlab, necessitating a book that is timely and up-to-date. The complete lack of a relevant resource in this area, combined with a clearly felt need for such a text provided the primary and initial impetus for this project. The authors provide such a dearly needed resource adapting and pooling materials that developed for and used in highly rated courses involving the use of Matlab in Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. Two co-authors (PW and NH) have presented their respective work on teaching Matlab at national meetings and two of the co-authors (PW and MB) were awarded the coveted University of Chicago's Booth Prize for excellence in teaching these courses. (http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/070524/boothprize.shtml ).

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Product details

Hardcover: 400 pages

Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (November 12, 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0123745519

ISBN-13: 978-0123745514

Product Dimensions:

7.8 x 0.8 x 9.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 2 pounds

Average Customer Review:

3.9 out of 5 stars

16 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#1,566,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

What more could you ask for? As a budding neuroscientist currently applying to grad school, I've had to use MATLAB for a vast array of purposes in several labs. Not only is this book the best possible way to immerse yourself in the truly PRACTICAL applications of MATLAB for neuroscience, but it is diverse in its applications. I've been able to utilize what I learned from this book on literally both coasts of the country.This should, really, be a mandatory tutorial for every graduate student interested in collecting data from subjects and analyzing said data.I see some reviewers saying its not for beginners. The key is to remember that this is NOT a walk in the park type of field. Therefore, this book properly and over-adequately prepares you for real-world challenges that you will face int he field.The step by step instructions and workflows are amazing for self-verification and I really don't think I would have been able to excel as quickly as I did in MATLAB and my neuroscience career as I could without this book.

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I had no previous background in programming or computer science, but based on the reviews I bought this book as an introduction to learning Matlab because it was more specific to the field I'm in. I am REALLY surprised at the reviews that say this book is for beginners. I agree with the previous review that says the book starts off easy to understand, and then it feels like it leaves you on your own to figure out a lot of things.For example, I was trying to complete the first project on my own and using only the commands covered in the previous chapters. I had to ask for help from friends and despite me telling them "I don't think I'm supposed to use that command because they haven't explained it yet" they still gave me other ways to write certain functions that weren't covered. Since I couldn't figure out how to integrate some of the previous material, I wrote the project program with commands that weren't covered by the book up to that point. It was pretty unsatisfying and discouraging. Not the book's fault that my friends didn't use what was taught, but it does lack some guidance for the projects.My biggest complaint is that I can't find sample programs for the projects! I've checked the companion website and tried to buy the answer manual online, but you have to prove that you're a professor in order to buy it. Available answers would really help someone like me (who has ZERO intuition for programming) get started on projects and find more efficient ways of writing programs. It's not the advanced math or methods described that make this text hard to get through, which some reviewers are attributing to the bad reviews.There are lots of comments that accompany the examples, a color insert, and a really helpful appendix that quickly reviews some matrix algebra. This seems like a good book for someone in neuroscience or psychology who already has some background in Matlab. But if you're just starting out, especially without any background in programming, this book will likely discourage you. Also, I could see how this book would be good for a beginning course because you've got a professor to guide you through the text. However, I'd recommend David Rosenbaum's "Matlab for Behavioral Scientists" for a beginning text if you're teaching yourself. After reading that book, I've looked back at this book and can understand everything much better.

I love ebooks...they are so much more convenient than books I have to tote around....and this is a good book. Kudos to the authors. I am really enjoying it.BUT apparently the EBOOK DOES NOT COME WITH ACCESS TO THE COMPANION WEBSITE.I hope that Amazon and Elsevier will make this clear in the future. Here is what Elsevier said when I inquired about how to get access to the companion site:Dear XXXXX,Thanks for your inquiry. To obtain online access customers must purchase the print + online access package.I apologize for any confusion you may have experienced when purchasing this product from Amazon.com.In most cases the Kindle version does not include any of the extra materials that accompany the hard bound versions of our books.This includes access to web sites, CDs, or DVDs.I'm sorry but our marketing department has made that decision for our titles, and in most cases haslowered the Kindle price to reflect the absence of those materials. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.Regards,John BrownCustomer Service AmericasOnline Technical Support TeamElsevier3251 Riverport LaneMaryland Heights MO 63043

This book will help you understand Matlab better especially if you are going into neuroscience. However, it is lacking in examples and sometimes the explanations are not very clear. I would only recommend this book if you already have some Matlab experience and not for the amateur programmer. Other than that, the book is quite detailed and full of colour.

Excellent!

This covers almost all the important stuff that is required by a begginer. Like all the important matlab stuff. Though some of the concepts related to the neural physiology are implicit. I think this book is a great tool to learn matlab if you have a neural science background.

its not clear what a person will know when he or she finishes studying a section in this book and whatever it is what value it will be.

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