Understanding Brains: Details, Intuition, and Big Data

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...

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Autor principal: Marder, Eve
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4428625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25965068
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002147
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-44286252015-05-21 Understanding Brains: Details, Intuition, and Big Data Marder, Eve PLoS Biol Essay 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. Public Library of Science 2015-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4428625/ /pubmed/25965068 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002147 Text en © 2015 Eve Marder http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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