Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 What Engineers Know about Design 2 Why an Animal Needs a Brain 3 Why a Bigger Brain? 4 How Bigger Brains Are Organized 5 Information Processing: From Molecules to Molecular Circuits 6 Information Processing in Protein Circuits 7 Design of Neurons 8 How Photoreceptors Optimize the Capture of Visual Information 9 The Fly Lamina: An Efficient Interface for High-Speed Vision 10 Design of Neural Circuits: Recoding Analogue Signals to Pulsatile 11 Principles of Retinal Design 12 Beyond the Retina: Pathways to Percepion and Action 13 Principles of Efficient Wiring 14 Learning as Design/ Design of Learning 15 Summary and Conclusions Principles of Neural Design Notes Referencees Index