Neural codes - Necessary but not sufficient for understanding brain function.

Schultz SR

Gava GP

Scientific Abstract

Brains are information processing systems whose operational principles ultimately cannot be understood without resource to information theory. We suggest that understanding how external signals are represented in the brain is a necessary step towards employing further engineering tools (such as control theory) to understand the information processing performed by brain circuits during behaviour.

Citation

2019. Behav Brain Sci, 42e241.

DOI

10.1017/S0140525X1900147X

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