(1) How can we find out how the brain works? There is a continued need for computational frameworks that interplay with experimental design and analysis at multiple levels (e.g., neurons, circuits, cognition). I have been intrigued by how neural systems represent and learn about stimuli in the natural environment, resulting in complex inferences and behavior. My […]
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Five questions answered by Birte Forstmann
(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? […]
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 Tom Griffiths
1 How can we find out how the brain works? As a cognitive scientist I normally think about this question from the perspective of Marr’s levels of analysis. Understanding how the brain works is a question at what Marr called the “implementation” level, but I think a lot of insight can be gained by asking why […]
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 […]
