Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. https://www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-neuroscience/breaking-the-barrier-between-theorists-and-experimentalists/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250224-breaking-barrier-theorists-experimentalists
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1. theory - 'the dopamine theory of schizophrenia'
2. iteratively testing hypothesis spaces - 'antagonizing D2 should alleviate sch symptoms'
3. insight into hyp spaces - 'what if that's all downstream of NMDAR loss?'
Platt called for 2-3; 1-2 not so much.