Understanding Brains: Details, Intuition, and Big Data

Eve Marder

PLOS Biology, 2015, vol. 13, issue 5, 1-6

Abstract: Understanding how the brain works requires a delicate balance between the appreciation of the importance of a multitude of biological details and the ability to see beyond those details to general principles. As technological innovations vastly increase the amount of data we collect, the importance of intuition into how to analyze and treat these data may, paradoxically, become more important.This personal view from a pioneer of connectomics asks how we should balance the plethora of biological data with the need to extract general principles that bring insight into brain function.

Date: 2015
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