A central challenge for cognitive and systems neuroscience is to relate the incredibly
complex behavior of animals to the equally complex activity of their brains. Recently …

The human brain is exceedingly complex and studying it encompasses gathering
information across a range of levels, from molecular processes to behavior. The sheer …

How is it that we can perceive, learn and be aware of the world? The development of new
techniques for studying large-scale brain activity, together with insights from computational …

How does the brain work? After a century of research, we still lack a coherent view of how
neurons process signals and control our activities. But as the field of computational …

Although twenty-first century neuroscience is a major scientific enterprise, advances in basic
research have not yet translated into benefits for society. In this paper, I outline seven …

The fields of neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) have a long and intertwined history.
In more recent times, however, communication and collaboration between the two fields has …

To learn how cognition is implemented in the brain, we must build computational models
that can perform cognitive tasks, and test such models with brain and behavioral …

Despite cash-strapped times for research, several ambitious collaborative neuroscience
projects have attracted large amounts of funding and media attention. In Europe, the Human …

When the mathematician Alan Turing posed the question “Can machines think?” in the first
line of his seminal 1950 paper that ushered in the quest for artificial intelligence (AI)(1), the …

The authors encompass a broad background, from biophysics and electrophysiology to
psychophysics, neurology, and computational vision. However, all the chapters focus on a …