Optimal Real-Time Signal Processing in the Nervous System

Most of us share the qualitative impression that the nervous system is a remarkable computational device. Part of the evidence for this belief is the tremendous difficulty in imitating neural functions using man-made hardware — we are a long way from having machines which see or hear. Yet it is easy to find tasks where even rather modest modern computers far outperform relatively sophisticated animals. What then is so special about neural computation?

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