MATLAB for Brain and Cognitive Scientists Kindle Edition

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An introduction to a popular programming language for neuroscience research, taking the reader from beginning to intermediate and advanced levels of MATLAB programming.

MATLAB is one of the most popular programming languages for neuroscience and psychology research. Its balance of usability, visualization, and widespread use makes it one of the most powerful tools in a scientist's toolbox. In this book, Mike Cohen teaches brain scientists how to program in MATLAB, with a focus on applications most commonly used in neuroscience and psychology. Although most MATLAB tutorials will abandon users at the beginner's level, leaving them to sink or swim, MATLAB for Brain and Cognitive Scientists takes readers from beginning to intermediate and advanced levels of MATLAB programming, helping them gain real expertise in applications that they will use in their work.

The book offers a mix of instructive text and rigorous explanations of MATLAB code along with programming tips and tricks. The goal is to teach the reader how to program data analyses in neuroscience and psychology. Readers will learn not only how to but also how not to program, with examples of bad code that they are invited to correct or improve. Chapters end with exercises that test and develop the skills taught in each chapter. Interviews with neuroscientists and cognitive scientists who have made significant contributions their field using MATLAB appear throughout the book. MATLAB for Brain and Cognitive Scientists is an essential resource for both students and instructors, in the classroom or for independent study.

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An excellent primer on programming, linear algebra, signal processing, and statistics with MATLAB essential for data analysis by neuroscientists! Read it for a journey with valuable advice from Mike Cohen that can transform you from a novice to an expert in data analysis, and keep it on your bookshelf as a lifelong reference!

―Srikantan Nagarajan, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Mike X Cohen is Assistant Professor in the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior at the Radboud University and University Medical Center, Nijmegan, the Netherlands. He is the author of Analyzing Neural Time Series Data: Theory and Practice (MIT Press). --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08HY2CDHK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press (July 14, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 14, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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DFR

This book is an excellent companion text to Cohen's other text "Analyzing neural time ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2017

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This book is an excellent companion text to Cohen's other text "Analyzing neural time series data" because this book gives additional insights in how to use and program with Matlab to do the analyses of in the 'time seriess data' text.

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robin

Super Helpful for Matlab Beginners

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2019

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Subject line says it all!

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Christos Zacharopoulos

Amazing!

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2017

I wish this book was available earlier. I am constantly learning new things in a fun and educative way! The more I read this book, the more I understand code that was scaring and unapproachable for me before. Mike is an excellent lecturer and this can be reflected in his writing style. The book is filled with small jokes that come out of the blue and might have you laughing on your own while reading a technical book in a quiet library! For example, Mike is teaching the notion of functions by having you type a function called mikeisANiceGuy. This might look simple but when I had to write a function of my own and tried to recall the general formula of output = function_name(input), I only did that by recalling the funny-named mikeisANiceGuy.

Moreover, this book goes hand to hand with the "Analyzing Neural Series data" by the same author. After reading a couple of chapters from MBCS, I went back and looked at the code that accompanies the "Analyzing Neural Series data". The difference was immense! I could read and understand the code much faster than I did the previous time.

All in all, this is an excellent book. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to get up and running with brain data.

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Stephen Miller

This book is incredible. An introduction to quantitative neuroscience ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2018

This book is incredible. An introduction to quantitative neuroscience AND Matlab, written with personality, sample code, and lots of illustrations? Yes please! I just wish it came out before his other book Analyzing Neural Time Series Data, because that covered much more difficult material with less explanation of the basics.

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MD J.

Expensive but good quality

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2020

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High quality papers and binding

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Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2022

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buena compra si es tu área y necesitas aprender desde cero

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Neurogenesis

Good descriptions, poor code.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 1, 2018

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The descriptions of what the code does are generally pretty good, however, in terms of the code actually running it doesn't work. I'm currently having issues with IAF neurons;

volt_rest = -70; % resting potential (mV)
volt_thresh = -50; % action potential thresh. (mV)
volt_reset = -75; % post-spike reset voltage

% membrane parameters
R_m = 10; % neuron membrane resistance (MOhm)
tau = 10; % time constant of decay (ms)

srate = 10000; % sampling rate in Hz
sim_dur = 1; % stimulus duration in seconds
time = 0:1/srate:sim_dur - 1/srate;
input = zeros(1,length(time));
input(dsearchn(time',.3):dsearchn(time',.7)) = 3;

neuronV = volt_rest + zeros(size(timevec));
spiketimes = [];

if neuronV(ti) > volt_thresh
neuronV(ti) = volt_reset;
spiketimes = cat(1,spiketimes,ti);
end

r_i = volt_rest + input(ti)*R_m;
neuronV(ti+1) = r_i + (neuronV(ti) - r_i) * exp(-1000/srate/tau);

neuronV(neuronV==volt_reset) = 40;

This does not execute, was 'timevec' a function which has since been depracated? Also 'ti' throws a undefined error, unsurprising as it's not been explicity been declared anywhere. Unfortunately, its difficult to tell what is actually meant to relate to? is it 'time' (which also throws a error) or 'tau' (which also throws a error, but runs if you replace 'timevec' with it?) Ive tried stackoverflow and matlab answers, any suggestions?

Vinicius Borges

Great book

Reviewed in Germany on September 11, 2020

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I bought this book in conjunction with Cohen's courses on Udemy (Master MATLAB through guided problem solving and MATLAB onramp 2020). The book covers mostly same topics as the courses, which is something that I found useful to study (when I have a lot of energy, I read the book and do the exercises from scratch; when I feel more tired I watch the online courses).

The book is quite enjoyable as a read, Cohen sprinkles some jokes and wit throughout the chapters to keep you awake. I have never done any programming as of July 2019, and a year later with this book and Cohen's courses I feel I have acquired basic competence at MATLAB.

Mubeen

Clearly written book

Reviewed in Australia on April 5, 2021

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Mike Cohen books are typically clearly written and he has the talent to explain complex scientific concepts to all levels of reader. I have all his three main books and although havent exhausted them have found them so far very helpful to get started on EEG research as someone with no background in code or mathematics.

E.A. Kappel

Weer een prima uitleg van de materie van de schrijver Mike X. Cohan

Reviewed in Germany on March 6, 2019

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De materie, welke best complex kan zijn, wordt op een heldere manier duidelijk gemaakt.
Voor mensen die kennis willen maken met signaalverwerking, ondersteuning zoeken in de
vele analyse-mogelijkheden met MATLAB is dit een prima aankoop. Het leest weg als een roman
en op geen enkel moment voel je dat je in het diepe wordt gegooid.

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Nicola Meda

Ottimo anche per chi non ha basi di programmazione

Reviewed in Italy on August 20, 2018

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Ottimo per un principiante. Passo passo, esercizio dopo esercizio, Mike insegna a maneggiare matlab e i suoi strumenti, stimolando la curiosità e l'ingegno per trovare soluzioni ai problemi posti. Ho finito l'introduzione e finalmente ho abbastanza conoscenze da scrivere un semplice script e leggere script complessi costruiti dai miei professori, sia per la semplice programmazione che per complesse analisi statistiche.

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