Foundations of computational neuroscience

Gualtiero Piccinini; Oron Shagrir

doi:10.1016/j.conb.2013.10.005

Foundations of computational neuroscience

Gualtiero Piccinini, Oron Shagrir^*

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Most computational neuroscientists assume that nervous systems compute and process information. We discuss foundational issues such as what we mean by 'computation' and 'information processing' in nervous systems; whether computation and information processing are matters of objective fact or of conventional, observer-dependent description; and how computational descriptions and explanations are related to other levels of analysis and organization.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	25-30
Number of pages	6
Journal	Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Volume	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2013.10.005
State	Published - Apr 2014

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