title: Understanding brains: details, intuition, and big data.
abstract: Understanding how the brain works requires a delicate balance between the appreciation of the importance of a multitude of biological details and the ability to see beyond those details to general principles. As technological innovations vastly increase the amount of data we collect, the importance of intuition into how to analyze and treat these data may, paradoxically, become more important.
authors.affiliation: Volen Center and Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Eve
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marder
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000066494:Cognitive Neuroscience / Q000639:trends*; D063132:Connectome; D019545:Intuition; D013223:Statistics as Topic