Complexity and the Nervous System
- 2 April 1999
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 284 (5411), 96-98
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.284.5411.96
Abstract
Advances in the neurosciences have revealed the staggering complexity of even “simple” nervous systems. This is reflected in their function, their evolutionary history, their structure, and the coding schemes they use to represent information. These four viewpoints need all play a role in any future science of “brain complexity.”Keywords
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