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Information theory: The Holy Grail of cortical computation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

James V. Stone
James V. Stone
Affiliation:
Wellcome Research Fellow, Psychology Department, Sheffield University, Sheffield, S10 2UR, [email protected] www.shef.ac.uk/psychology/stone
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Abstract

Simple hypotheses are intrinsically attractive, and, for this reason, need to be formulated with utmost precision if they are to be testable. Unfortunately, it is hard to see how Phillips & Singer's hypothesis might be unambiguously refuted. Despite this, the authors have provided much evidence consistent with the hypothesis, and have proposed a natural and powerful extension for information theoretic approaches to learning.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 698
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© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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