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This is my area of specialty. Sadly, the short answer is: no one knows ;) For the long answer on how the brain processes visual information... search for review articles on "visual object recognition" For retina specific work, look up papers on retinal coding

Apeiron- I should be careful here... if you are still in the Boston computational neuroscience community then there is a pretty decent chance that we actually know each other. I would guess that the real reason people don't read Grossberg's work is because he makes up too many words. How many...

First of all neurally-inspired computer systems are common research topics especially in computer vision. Apeiron is showing his own particular bias by saying that. Second, don't read Grossberg unless you go to Boston University. No one outside of BU reads his stuff. Do read David...

Why are people suggesting Cambell for the questions the original poster is asking? That is a general biology book and would be full of a lot of irrelevant information. Why not recommend an introductory neuroscience book like Kandel Schwartz and Jessel, or Squire et. al. or Purves...? These...

what are you talking about?

I am a PhD student in cognitive/computational neuroscience at a top 5 school. It doesn't matter what you major in as an undergraduate to get into graduate school in this field. There are people in my department with all sorts of backgrounds including those you listed. What does matter is...

If I remember correctly, the discussion you are looking for is in an appendix in the Kandel book.

A good, short and easy to read reference on this is chapter 5 of Peter Dayan and Larry Abbott's book Theoretical Neuroscience. Actually, you can find a discussion of these things even in the huge Kandel and Squire books.

I meant classical to mean "not-quantum". Not to mean that the brain was anything like modern engineered computers. I would still refer to an analog computer made with running water and tinkertoys as being classical in this context. Still though, it's not fair to say that the brain operates...

James Watson believes every offensive thing imaginable; this is just the one that the media decided to get riled up over.

Now this is entertaining: http://www.cryptozoology.com/

I'll add to this one: I also started reading physics forums very close to when it started (version 1) while I was in high school. I was a lurker for years before I created an account. I am now a PhD student at a top 5 university. I've learned a lot from many members here. Especially...

Why are people in this thread talking about Ethics? The sort of philosophy in question that the original poster might need in order to teach Biology is philosophy of science. Studying philosophy of science is indispensable to a scientist's education. I rarely ever meet scientists who are...

This is a strange exchange, you both seem to agree that theories are falsifiable (according to popper) but D H says Razor 7 is wrong anyway. Perhaps this was a mistake and D H had meant to quote someone else?

Actually, have you read David Marr? (Vision 1982) His approach is much closer to how I really think neuroscience research should be done- closer even than what I wrote above.