E32: How Do We Study Behavior?

Unsupervised Thinking by Neuro Collective

May 1, 201859:45Science & Medicine

There is a tension when it comes to the study of behavior in neuroscience. On the one hand, we would love to understand animals as they behave in the wild---with the full complexity of the stimuli they take in and the ac...

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