Empiricists are from Venus, modelers are from Mars: Reconciling experimental and computational approaches in cognitive neuroscience

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2371-2379

  Cowell, Rosemary A ^a   Bussey, Timothy J ^b,c   Saksida, Lisa M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioral neuroscience; Biological plausibility; Cognitive neuroscience; Computational model; Connectionism; Levels of organization; Model parameters; Parsimony; Problem space

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONNECTOME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84872276623     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.08.008     Document Type: Note

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