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Codes are for messages, not for neurons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2019

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Bjorn Merker*
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Abstract

My commentary draws on extensive arguments against “coding in the brain” developed by my neuroscience mentor, the late Eugene Sachs, who summarized them as follows: “[T]he energy in the signal is the only code there is for information…. The code is the same for each cell, but each cell's location is different, and location is the only basis for significance” (p. 13).

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e236
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