Large-scale modeling – a tool for conquering the complexity of the brain
Open Access
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Frontiers in Neuroscience
Abstract
Is there any hope of achieving a thorough understanding of higher functions such as perception, memory, thought and emotion or is the stunning complexity of the brain a barrier which will limit such efforts for the foreseeable future? In this perspective we discuss methods to handle complexity, approaches to model building, and point to detailed large-scale models as a new contribution to the toolbox of the computational neuroscientist. We elucidate some aspects which distinguishes large-scale models and some of the technological challenges which they entail.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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