Engineering the Next Revolution in Neuroscience

The New Science of Experiment Planning

Alcino J. Silva, John Bickle, Anthony Landreth (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2013
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-973175-6 (ISBN)

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Engineering the Next Revolution in Neuroscience presents a framework for accelerating discovery in neuroscience. Deriving principles directly from detailed case studies, the authors show how maps of research findings will enable researchers to see what their field has accomplished and where the unexplored territories still reside.

Science is growing at a pace that exceeds our comprehension. This is no less true of neuroscience than any other discipline. Ambiguity about what is known and what has been disproven confounds researchers and hampers research planning. There are simply too many research articles and too few hours in the day for anyone to read all that is relevant, let alone distinguish the reliable results from the sketchy ones.

Engineering the Next Revolution in Neuroscience explores the proposal that we can overcome these obstacles to scientific progress, and revolutionize neuroscience, by using a framework to map the experimental record. With case studies from learning and memory research, the authors show that we can construct networks of experimental research that make the state of our knowledge manifest. Armed with maps of experiments, scientists can determine more efficiently what their fields have accomplished and where the unexplored territories still reside.

AJS: Professor, Departments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry, and Psychology, Head, Center for Plasticity and Memory, and Co-Coordinator for Learning and Memory, Brain Research Institute, UCLA JB: Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy, Professor, Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Cincinnati AL: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology, UCLA

Contents ; Chapter 1: Navigating Neuroscience ; Chapter 2: Framing Maps of Research Findings ; Chapter 3: A Framework for Molecular and Cellular Cognition ; Chapter 4: The Power of Convergence ; Chapter 5: Ruling out the Probable to Argue for the Possible ; Chapter 6: Resonating Experiments ; Chapter 7: A Dream Within Reach: Building Automated Research Maps ; Chapter 8: Architecture for Experimentalists ; Chapter 9: The Future Science of Experiment Planning ; Bibliography ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.10.2013
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	211 x 137 mm
Gewicht	249 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	0-19-973175-6 / 0199731756
ISBN-13	978-0-19-973175-6 / 9780199731756
Zustand	Neuware