(1) How can we find out how the brain works? I believe that formal models that make simultaneous predictions about different modalities such as behavior and the brain are powerful tools. Such tools could help to gain a better mechanistic understanding of brain function. (2) What will your talk at CCN 2017 be about? […]
Author Archive | Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
Five questions answered by Michael Shadlen
(1) How can we find out how the brain works? By testing neurobiological hypotheses that address the “how” question at a variety of levels. To me, “how the brain works” is a biological problem because I am less interested in mimicking the brain with a machine than I am in assessing what goes wrong when […]
Five questions answered by Yoshua Bengio
1 How can we find out how the brain works? If there is a compact description of the computational principles which explain how the brain manages to provide us with our intelligence, this is something I would consider the core explanation for how the brain works – a little bit like the laws of physics […]