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Review
. 2014 Apr:25:25-30.
doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2013.10.005. Epub 2013 Dec 10.

Foundations of computational neuroscience

Gualtiero Piccinini  1 , Oron Shagrir  2
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Review

Foundations of computational neuroscience

Gualtiero Piccinini et al. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2014 Apr.

Abstract

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.

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