Journal
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 267-276Publisher
MIT PRESS
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21477
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- NSF [DMS-0746667]
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0746667] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The computer metaphor has served brain science well as a tool for comprehending neural systems. Nevertheless, we propose here that this metaphor be replaced or supplemented by a new metaphor, the Internet metaphor, to reflect dramatic new network theoretic understandings of brain structure and function. We offer a weak form and a strong form of this metaphor: The former suggests that structures and processes unique to Internet-like architectures (e. g., domains and protocols) can profitably guide our thinking about brains, whereas the latter suggests that one particular feature of the Internet-packet switching-may be instantiated in the structure of certain brain networks, particularly mammalian neocortex.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available