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work_hsbk45jamzbzxgeq2moket5pcu	Paul Thagard	How Molecules Matter to Mental Computation	2002	18	.pdf	application/pdf	7696	521	49	Almost all computational models of the mind and brain ignore details about neurotransmitters, hormones, and other molecules. considerable evidence that chemical complexity really does matter to brain computation, including the role of proteins in intracellular computation, the operations of synapses and neurotransmitters, and the effects of neuromodulators such as hormones. Neural-network computational models typically treat neuronal processing as an electrical phenomenon in which the The neglect of neurochemistry in cognitive science would be appropriate if the computational properties of brains relevant to explaining mental to the ways in which the brain is a chemical as well as an electrical computer provides a qualitatively different view of mental computation than Most cognitive models using artificial neural networks describe the behavior of neurons by a parameter called activation, which represents the Thus spiking neural networks provide a promising new approach to computational modeling of the brain. computational models of neural networks, whether a neuron fires is not	./cache/work_hsbk45jamzbzxgeq2moket5pcu.pdf	./txt/work_hsbk45jamzbzxgeq2moket5pcu.txt