Just looking: The innocent eye in neuroscience.

Neuron
Samuel J Gershman

Abstract

Since the early days of neuroscience, students have been instructed to "just look" at their data with innocent eyes, and more recently with innocent algorithms. I argue that this epistemic attitude obscures the ubiquitous role that theory plays in neuroscience.

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