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Information theory: The Holy Grail of cortical computation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

James V. Stone
Affiliation:
Wellcome Research Fellow, Psychology Department, Sheffield University, Sheffield, S10 2UR, Englandstone@aivru.sheffield.ac.uk www.shef.ac.uk/psychology/stone
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Abstract

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Simple hypotheses are intrinsically attractive, and, for this reason, need to be formulated with utmost precision if they are to be testable. Unfortunately, it is hard to see how Phillips & Singer's hypothesis might be unambiguously refuted. Despite this, the authors have provided much evidence consistent with the hypothesis, and have proposed a natural and powerful extension for information theoretic approaches to learning.

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© 1997 Cambridge University Press