Recommended

• From Computer to Brain, W.W. Lytton, Springer 2002, ISBN: 0-387-95526-7

  • Non-mathematical introduction to both ANNs and BNNs

  • Chapter 1: Introduction

  • Chapter 2: Computational Neuroscience and You

  • ANNs: chapters 6, 9, 10

  • BNNs: chapters 3, 7, 11, 12, 13

Additional suggestions

Artificial Neural Networks

• An Introduction to Neural Networks, K. Gurney, UCL Press, 1997

  • Non-mathematical introduction to ANNs

• Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation, S.Haykin, Prentice Hall, 1999

  • Very comprehensive ANN treatment; heavy in maths

Computational Neuroscience

• Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience, T.P. Trappenberg, 2nd Edition, OUP, 2009

  • Another good introduction to both ANNs and BNNs

• The Computational Brain, P.S. Churchland and T.J. Sejnowski, MIT Press, 1994

  • An oldy, but a goody!

Real Neuroscience

• The Neuron, I.B. Levitan and L.K. Kaczmarek, 3rd Edition, OUP, 2002

  • Very readable introduction to neuroscience

• Principles of Neural Science, E. Kandel, J. Schwartz, T.M. Jessell, McGraw-Hill, 4th Edition, 2000

  • Very comprehensive material to the brain, regarded as the neuroscience bible