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Building brains that communicate like machines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Daniel Graham
Daniel Graham*
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Department of Psychology, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456. graham@hws.edu http://people.hws.edu/graham
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Abstract

Reverse engineering human cognitive processes may improve artificial intelligence, but this approach implies we have little to learn regarding brains from human-engineered systems. On the contrary, engineered technologies of dynamic network communication have many features that highlight analogous, poorly understood, or ignored aspects of brain and cognitive function, and mechanisms fundamental to these technologies can be usefully investigated in brains.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e266
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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