Brain activity and cognition: A connection from thermodynamics and information theory

The connection between brain and mind is an important scientific and philosophical question that we are still far from completely understanding. A crucial point to our work is noticing that thermodynamics provides a convenient framework to model brain activity, whereas cognition can be modeled in in...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Psychology
Main Authors:	Guillem eCollell, Jordi eFauquet
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-06-01
Subjects:	Information Theory free energy Cognitive models Negentropy brain thermodynamics
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00818/full