The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought

By T. Simpatico. 2005

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Toward an Integration of Deep Learning and Neuroscience (2016, unknown): “Geneticallyguidedwiringshouldnotbethoughtofasﬁxed“hard-wiring”butratheras aprogrammaticconstructionprocessthatcanalsoacceptexternalinputsandinteractwithlearningmechanisms(Marcus,2004).”
Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, background): “The remarkable abilities of the young indigo bunting to use stars for navigational purposes – even in the absence of older birds to lead theway – might at first seem to counter this line of reasoning (e.g., Hauser 2001; Marcus 2004).”
The evolutionary genetics of personality (2007, background): “The watershed metaphor breaks down a bit at this point, because it fails to reflect the fact that most mutations are pleiotropic in their effects (Marcus, 2004): each mutation will tend to disrupt several downstream traits.”
Dynamic Development of Action and Thought (2007, background): “Similarly, biologists model the structures of evolution of living organisms (Kauffman, 1993) and the dynamics of brain functioning and development (e.g., Marcus, 2004; Polsky, Mel, & Schiller, 2004; Spruston & Kath, 2004).”
The atoms of neural computation (2014, background): “While these studies are often taken to imply a “uniform'' cortical substrate, several caveats are in order (Marcus, 2008).”