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Building machines that adapt and compute like brains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, CB2 7EF, United Kingdom. Nikolaus.Kriegeskorte@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.ukRobert.Mok@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Robert M. Mok
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, CB2 7EF, United Kingdom. Nikolaus.Kriegeskorte@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.ukRobert.Mok@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

Abstract

Building machines that learn and think like humans is essential not only for cognitive science, but also for computational neuroscience, whose ultimate goal is to understand how cognition is implemented in biological brains. A new cognitive computational neuroscience should build cognitive-level and neural-level models, understand their relationships, and test both types of models with both brain and behavioral data.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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