Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocativeargument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that thefield can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitivescience and the development of information theory over the courseof the last several decades.* A provocative argument that impacts across the fields oflinguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience, suggesting newperspectives on learning mechanisms in the brain* Proposes that the field of neuroscience can and should benefitfrom the recent advances of cognitive science and the developmentof information theory* Suggests that the architecture of the brain is structuredprecisely for learning and for memory, and integrates the conceptof an addressable read/write memory mechanism into the foundationsof neuroscience* Based on lectures in the prestigious Blackwell-MarylandLectures in Language and Cognition, and now significantly reworkedand expanded to make it ideal for students and faculty