Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Jonas, Eric ^a   Kording, Konrad Paul ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LARGE DATASET; NEUROLOGY;

BRAIN PROCESS; COMPLEX DATASETS; DATA ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS; DATA ANALYSIS-METHODS; INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS; LARGE DATASETS; MODEL ORGANISMS; MODEL USE; MULTI-MODAL DATASET; PROCESS INFORMATION;

LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER; CONNECTOME; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; MICROPROCESSOR; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROSCIENCE; NEUROSCIENTIST; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SCIENTIST; TRANSISTOR; VIDEO GAME; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; MICROCOMPUTER; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTOME; DATABASES, FACTUAL; MICROCOMPUTERS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROSCIENCES; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 85011385290     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268     Document Type: Article

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