Neural and Synergetic Computers deals with basic aspect ofthis rapidly developing field. Further topics include statistical approaches toneural computers and their design (for example by sparsecoding), perception motor control, and new types of spatialmultistability in lasers.

I Synergetics, Self-Organization, Pattern Recognition.- Synergetics in Pattern Recognition and Associative Action.- Computer Simulations of Pattern Recognition as a Dynamical Process of a Synergetic System.- Variational Principles in Pattern Theory.- Self-Organizing Neural Network Architectures for Real-Time Adaptive Pattern Recognition (With 10 Figures).- II Neural Networks.- Problems for Nets and Nets for Problems.- Associative Memory and Its Statistical Neurodynamical Analysis.- Local Synaptic Rules with Maximal Information Storage Capacity.- Hopfield Model, Boltzmann Machine, Multilayer Perceptron and Selected Applications.- Computation in Cortical Nets.- Pattern Formation on Analogue Parallel Networks.- Optimization by Diploid Search Strategies.- III Perception and Motor Control.- Movement Detectors of the Correlation Type Provide Sufficient Information for Local Computation of the 2-D Velocity Field.- Order in Time: How the Cooperation Between the Hands Informs the Design of the Brain.- Self-Organizing Neural Architectures for Eye Movements, Arm Movements, and Eye-Ann Coordination.- Neural Nets for the Management of Sensory and Motor Trajectories.- IV Optical Systems.- Spatial Symmetry Breaking in Optical Systems.- Cooperative Frequency Locking and Spatial Structures in Lasers.- Index of Contributors.