Local receptive fields

[Lyle J. Borg-Graham]

>But the data are complex and difficult to map onto specific
>computational functions.  This I think is one of the advantages
>to computational models in that modelers can quickly explore 
>the computational consequences of hypotheses that 
>neuroscientists must explore in more tedious and perhaps
>information poorer ways.

Of course, an ever-present risk is that modellers can over-generalize
from seductively-simple models (or just simply-seductive ones),
evoking an Occamian motivation which helps the neuroscientists and
their interpretation of the data not a whit.