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Just looking: The innocent eye in neuroscience

2021; Cell Press; Volume: 109; Issue: 14 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.neuron.2021.05.022

1097-4199

Samuel J. Gershman,

Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Since the early days of neuroscience, students have been instructed to "just look" at their data with innocent eyes, and more recently with innocent algorithms. I argue that this epistemic attitude obscures the ubiquitous role that theory plays in neuroscience.