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I don't care how often I get down voted for making the above comment in response to posts about this article. I am a neuroscientist and I will defend my field f
by SubiculumCode 7y ago
I don't care how often I get down voted for making the above comment in response to posts about this article. I am a neuroscientist and I will defend my field from overrated, simplistic criticisms that happen to appeal to the HN crowd's sensibilities.
- hsitz 7y agoDo you have any suggestions for what the average layperson could read to get a better understanding of contemporary neuroscience? Any articles or books you'd recommend?
- SubiculumCode 7y agoThat is a bit difficult because the field is very broad, and I don't tend to read popular science books. Mostly, I'd look up recent review articles on Google Scholar...
- dr_dshiv 7y ago"rhythms in the brain" is highly recommended
- earthboundkid 7y agoAh yes, the very mature science that has no consensus description of what memory is.
- SubiculumCode 7y agoAs someone who did his dissertation on episodic memory development, I see the wry humor, but I think your comment is a non sequitur. It is not that we have figured it all out, but rather can we gleam knowledge about cognition (e.g. episodic memory) and the brain from neuroscience and behavioral techniques. I think the answer is clearly yes. In terms of memory, we understand, for example, that the hippocampus is critical to some forms of memory, most critically memory that requires binding of arbitrary information/percepts representations into a more cohesive event representation, that the hippocmapus may achieve this through computational properties potentially afforded to it in microcircuits in subfields of the hippcampus (e.g. pattern completion from heavy recurrnecy in CA3) and pattern separation of information in the dentate gyrus, etc. and so on.