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The evolution of computation in brain circuitry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2006

Richard Granger
Richard Granger
Affiliation:
Departments of Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Brain Engineering Laboratory, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3435. Richard.Granger@Gmail.com http://www.BrainEngineering.com
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Abstract

The attempt to derive mental function from brain structure is highly constrained by study of the allometric changes among brain components with evolution. In particular, even if homologous structures in different species produce similar computations, they may be constituents of larger systems (e.g., cortical-subcortical loops) that exhibit different composite operations as a function of relative size and connectivity in different-sized brains. The resulting evolutionary constraints set useful and specific conditions on candidate hypotheses of brain circuit computation.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 17 - 18
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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