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Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy trade-off in the monkey's decision, and you can see from the neuron's

Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy trade-off in the monkey's decision, and you can see from the neuron's activity at what point in his accumulation of evidence he makes his decision to make a particular movement.

Patricia Churchland
Decision, Movement, Neurons
"Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

Mirror neurons make human empathy possible.

Nick Morgan
Mirrors, Empathy, Neurons
Source: bobmorris.biz

The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer.

Jeremy Bernstein
Numbers, Brain, Neurons
Jeremy Bernstein (1981). “The analytical engine: computers--past, present, and future”, William Morrow &Company

Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which either pre- or postsynaptic change is contingent upon closely occurring events in both neurons taking part in the synapse.

Gerald Edelman
Events, Neurons, Proposal

Even while it's true that we are tied to our molecules and proteins and neurons - as strokes and hormones and drugs and microorganisms indisputably tell us - it does not logically follow that humans are best described only as pieces and parts.

David Eagleman
Drug, Neurons, Molecules
David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.225, Vintage

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