Reviews, lecture notes and even books

William Bialek and collaborators

Follow the link above to a description of our research in the form of an annotated bibliography.

Follow the links below to download the main references.

Adaptive spike coding. A Fairhall & W Bialek, in The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, Second Edition, MA Arbib, ed, pp 90-94 (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002).

Thinking about the brain. W Bialek, in Physics of Biomolecules and Cells: Les Houches Session LXXV, H Flyvbjerg, F Jülicher, P Ormos, & F David, eds, pp 485-577 (EDP Sciences, Les Ulis; Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002).

Real time encoding of motion: Answerable questions and questionable answers from the fly's visual system. R de Ruyter van Steveninck, A Borst & W Bialek, in Processing Visual Motion in the Real World: A Survey of Computational, Neural and Ecological Constraints, JM Zanker & J Zeil, eds, pp 279-306 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001).

Potenialitá e limitazioni nella misura della transmission dell'informazione neuronale. W Bialek, in Frontiere Della Vita, Vol. III: Sistemi Intelligenti, pp 617-629 (Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1999).

From an English manuscript, Prospects and pitfalls in the measurement of neural information transmission. English edition: Frontiers of Life, Vol III: Intelligent Systems (Academic Press, San Diego, 2002).

Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code. F Rieke, D Warland, R de Ruyter van Steveninck & W Bialek (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1997).

Reviews include: A King, The London Times Higher Education Supplement 17 October 1997, p. 35; A Zador, Science 277, 772 (1997); LF Abbott, Neuron 19, 5 (1997); M Abeles, Trends Neurosci. 20, 496 (1997).

Statistical mechanics and sensory signal processing. W Bialek, in Physics of Biological Systems: From Molecules to Species, H Flyvbjerg, J Hertz, MH Jensen, OG Mouristen & K Sneppen, eds, pp 252-280 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1997).

Princeton Lectures on Biophysics. W Bialek, ed (World Scientific, Singapore, 1992).

Optimal signal processing in the nervous system. W Bialek, in [43], pp 321-401 (1992).

Theoretical physics meets experimental neurobiology. W Bialek, in 1989 Lectures in Complex Systems, SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Lect. Vol. II, E Jen, ed, pp 513-595 (Addison-Wesley, Menlo Park CA, 1990).

Physical limits to sensation and perception. W Bialek, Ann. Rev Biophys Biophys Chem 16, 455-478 (1987).

The Vertebrate Inner Ear. ER Lewis, EL Leverenz & W Bialek (CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1985).