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Understanding brains: details, intuition, and big data.
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Understanding brains: details, intuition, and big data.

Eve Marder
PLoS Biology
2015
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https://hdl.handle.net/10192/36124
PMCID: PMC4428625
PMID: 25965068

Abstract

Electrical circuits Neurons Connectomics Neuroscience Experimental design Receptor physiology Biologists Synapses
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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