From baconian to popperian neuroscience

  • Gamez D
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The development of neuroscience over the past 50 years has some similarities with the development of physics in the 17th century. Towards the beginning of that century, Bacon promoted the systematic gathering of experimental data and the induction of scientific truth; towards the end, Newton expressed his principles of gravitation and motion in a concise set of mathematical equations that made precise falsifiable predictions. This paper expresses the opinion that as neuroscience comes of age, it needs to move away from amassing large quantities of data about the brain, and adopt a popperian model in which theories are developed that can make strong falsifiable predictions and guide future experimental work.

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Gamez, D. (2012). From baconian to popperian neuroscience. Neural Systems & Circuits, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/2042-1001-2-2

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