Seeing red

[emjay]

For a start Benny, I would recommend this book very highly:

Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience: Understanding the Mind by Simulating the Brain by Randall O'reilly

It's a lot of money, but I think not only would it be interesting, but I could apply it in some game or network designing.  These things come in handy as a source of ideas surprisingly often.

Yay Money well spent, and you know I'd reimburse you if I could... considering how evangelical I am about this book (I'd probably buy a copy for Chad an' all ).

But one thing though is that it's quite an old book - 2000 - and although it's still 'supported' in that it has a website, it now offers different software than what's used in the book... the old software was called PDP++ and the new is called Emergent. So unfortunately all the exercises in the book, which include very specific technical instructions on using what was very complicated software, will now be moot unless you can get hold of the old software. However, the new software is far more user friendly and powerful, so perhaps you'll be able to translate the exercises to it. But nonetheless, exercises or not, it's an incredible book. This is the book's website http://psych.colorado.edu/~oreilly/comp_...neuro.html and on it you'll find links to resources and where to download the Emergent software from. So if you wanted, you could download it now and have a play around with it/see what you're up against before you get the book or even if you don't get the book