Neural codes - Necessary but not sufficient for understanding brain function.
Simon R SchultzGiuseppe P GavaPublished in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2019)
Brains are information processing systems whose operational principles ultimately cannot be understood without resource to information theory. We suggest that understanding how external signals are represented in the brain is a necessary step towards employing further engineering tools (such as control theory) to understand the information processing performed by brain circuits during behaviour.