Plenary Discussion: How Can One Test/Falsify Current Theories of Brain Computation?

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Lists specific experiments, datasets and failure conditions: use the CRCNS repository and Allen Brain Observatory to test models, demand mechanistic predictions about numbers (firing rates, proportions of cell types) and manipulations that falsify them, check whether a direction-selective retinal circuit or a winner-take-all working memory motif appears with the predicted connectivity and dynamics, require benchmarks of small computational primitives (input–output behaviors, convergence times) and shared contextual metadata so model outputs map unambiguously to experimental observations.

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1. 0:00Falsifying brain computation theories
2. 1:17Theorist-experimentalist collaboration challenges
3. 3:03Abstract theories and neural implementations
4. 4:06Neuroscience data sharing opportunities
5. 5:31Benchmarks for computational models
6. 7:58Broken computations in organisms
7. 10:12Testing direction selectivity circuits
8. 15:00Hierarchical brain information
9. 16:54Working memory as primitive
10. 19:47Reevaluating neuroscience primitives
11. 23:06Brain models versus blockchain
12. 24:16Vision research feasibility
13. 25:42Taxonomy of neuroscience observations
14. 27:08Improving data sharing methods
15. 30:18Experimentalist insights formats
16. 32:46Institutional collaboration changes
17. 35:40Discipline communication barriers
18. 38:17Aligning experiment and theory
19. 41:17Frameworks in neuroscience
20. 43:32Theorist-experimentalist interaction setups
21. 46:45Centralized experimental facilities
22. 48:11Mission-driven brain science
23. 50:11Neuroscience landscape opportunities

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