Minimal models and canonical neural computations: the distinctness of computational explanation in neuroscience

Efficient Coding of Spatial Information in the Primate Retina

(2012) E. Doi et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Computation, San Diego Style

(2012) Oron Shagrir   PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Inaugurating Understanding or Repackaging Explanation?*

(2012) Kareem Khalifa   PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Contrast normalization contributes to a biologically-plausible model of receptive-field development in primary visual cortex (V1)

(2012) Ben D.B. Willmore et al.   VISION RESEARCH

The Functional Unity of Special Science Kinds

(2011) D. A. Weiskopf   BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies

(2011) Shinji Nishimoto et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Explanatory Force of Dynamical and Mathematical Models in Neuroscience: A Mechanistic Perspective*

(2011) David Michael Kaplan et al.   PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Explanation and description in computational neuroscience

(2011) David Michael Kaplan   SYNTHESE

Integrating psychology and neuroscience: functional analyses as mechanism sketches

(2011) Gualtiero Piccinini et al.   SYNTHESE

Models and mechanisms in psychological explanation

(2011) Daniel A. Weiskopf   SYNTHESE

Neural reuse: A fundamental organizational principle of the brain

(2010) Michael L. Anderson   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Divisive Normalization in Olfactory Population Codes

(2010) Shawn R. Olsen et al.   NEURON

Marr on Computational-Level Theories*

(2010) Oron Shagrir   PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Magnitude of Perceived Change in Natural Images May Be Linearly Proportional to Differences in Neuronal Firing Rates

(2010) David Tolhurst et al.   Seeing and Perceiving

Computation vs. information processing: why their difference matters to cognitive science

(2010) Gualtiero Piccinini et al.   STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain

(2009) Frederico A.C. Azevedo et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

The Hodgkin‐Huxley Equations and the Concrete Model: Comments on Craver, Schaffner, and Weber

(2009) Jim Bogen   PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Theories, Models, and Equations in Biology: The Heuristic Search for Emergent Simplifications in Neurobiology

(2009) Kenneth F. Schaffner   PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Causes without Mechanisms: Experimental Regularities, Physical Laws, and Neuroscientific Explanation

(2009) Marcel Weber   PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Physical Law and Mechanistic Explanation in the Hodgkin and Huxley Model of the Action Potential

(2009) Carl F. Craver   PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Predictable irregularities in retinal receptive fields

(2009) Y. S. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Design of a Neuronal Array

(2008) B. G. Borghuis et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

So Many Choices: What Computational Models Reveal about Decision-Making Mechanisms

(2008) Emilio Salinas   NEURON

After the Philosophy of Mind: Replacing Scholasticism with Science*

(2008) Anthony Chemero et al.   PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Idealization and modeling

(2008) Robert W. Batterman   SYNTHESE