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Is Neuroscience Getting In The Way Of Figuring Out How Our Brains Behave?

IDEAS Posted: March 1, 2017 8:31 am

“We still don’t understand how the brain works because we’re still ignorant about the middle ground between single neurons and behavior, which is the function of groups of neurons—of neural circuits.” And that’s because of “the methodological shackles that have prevented investigators from examining the activity of entire nervous system. This is probably futile, like watching TV by examining a single pixel at a time.”

IDEAS Published: 02.27.17

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 02.27.17

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