Cognition and biology: Perspectives from information theory

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-12

  Wallace, Rodrick ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Information theory; Living state; Nonequilibrium; Rate distortion; Renormalization

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COGNITION; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84895075304     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-013-0573-1     Document Type: Review

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