Reverse engineering the vertebrate brain: Methodological principles for a biologically grounded programme of cognitive modelling

Cognitive Computation

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-41

  Gurney, Kevin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Brain architecture; Cognition; Computation; Computational neuroscience; Levels of analysis; Methodology

Indexed keywords

BASAL GANGLIA; BIOLOGICAL SUBSTRATES; BRAIN ARCHITECTURE; COGNITIVE MODELLING; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE; CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS; CONNECTIONISM; LEVELS OF ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; MULTIPLE LEVELS; REVERSE ENGINEERS; VERTEBRATE BRAINS; COGNITION; METHODOLOGY;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77549087155     PISSN: 18669956     EISSN: 18669964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12559-009-9010-2     Document Type: Article

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