Date: June 6, 2015
"The researchers captured data to assess their subjects' 'motor cortex plasticity,' a measure of the brain's ability to change its wiring in response to new stimuli."
preview | full record— Hutchinson, Alex
Date: May 18, 2015
"In this view, mental disorders result from the shorting-out or disruption of the larger circuit wiring of the brain--and it is in defining and describing those circuit connections that Deisseroth's innovations promise to be especially helpful."
preview | full record— Colapinto, John (b. 1958)
Date: June 27, 2015
"Descartes thought that the brain was a kind of hydraulic pump, propelling the spirits of the nervous system through the body."
preview | full record— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)
Date: June 27, 2015
"Freud compared the brain to a steam engine."
preview | full record— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)
Date: June 27, 2015
"The neuroscientist Karl Pribram likened it to a holographic storage device."
preview | full record— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)
Date: June 27, 2015
"Many neuroscientists today would add to this list of failed comparisons the idea that the brain is a computer -- just another analogy without a lot of substance."
preview | full record— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)
Date: June 27, 2015
"Often, when scientists resist the idea of the brain as a computer, they have a particular target in mind, which you might call the serial, stored-program machine."
preview | full record— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)
Date: June 27, 2015
"If the brain is not a serial algorithm-crunching machine, though, what is it?"
preview | full record— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)
Date: June 27, 2015
"Although my colleagues and I don't literally think that the brain is a field programmable gate array, our suggestion is that the brain might similarly consist of highly orchestrated sets of fundamental building blocks, such as "computational primitives" for constructing sequences, retrieving inf...
preview | full record— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)
Date: June 27, 2015
"If neurons are akin to computer hardware, and behaviors are akin to the actions that a computer performs, computation is likely to be the glue that binds the two."
preview | full record— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)