Beyond Spikes: Neural Codes and the Chemical Vocabulary of Cognition
英文摘要:
In this paper, I examine what I refer to as the spike doctrine, which is the generally held belief in neuroscience that information in the brain is encoded by sequences of neural action potentials. I present the argument that specific neurochemicals, and not spikes, are the elementary units of information in the brain. I outline several predictions that arise from this interpretation, relate them to results in the current research literature, and show how they address some open questions.
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