Thinking Backwards: Brain Function and Education

BEGINNING FROM THE SENSORY SIDE, 1981-1990

The Problem: Frog Prey Orienting Behavior

Observation 1

Observation 2

Observation 3

The Problem Rephrased:
How is the nervous system organized to appropriately associate each of an array of locations in space with elements of an array of different motor patterns?

The Strategy
  • Make sense of observations using minimum of what one knows in a testable model
  • Carry out new observations to test the model
  • Revise model based on new observations
  • Ad finitum

Trying it out: a final common path?

Trying it out: the dimensionality problem

Trying it out: a laterality problem

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