Computational and systems neuroscience: The next 20 years

Christopher Summerfield; Kevin Miller

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002306

Computational and systems neuroscience: The next 20 years

PLoS Biol. 2023 Sep 26;21(9):e3002306. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002306. eCollection 2023 Sep.

Authors

Christopher Summerfield^{1

2}, Kevin Miller^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom.
² Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

Abstract

Over the past 20 years, neuroscience has been propelled forward by theory-driven experimentation. We consider the future outlook for the field in the age of big neural data and powerful artificial intelligence models.

Copyright: © 2023 Summerfield, Miller. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Artificial Intelligence*
Big Data
Empirical Research
Neurosciences*
Research Design

Grants and funding

This work was supported by generous funding from the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator award 725937) and Special Grant Agreement No. 945539 (Human Brain Project SGA) to C.S. The funders supported C.S. during preparation of the manuscript.