"We suggest treating the brain as an engineering system" --  Danielle Basset #readingToday  

"We need a basic theory of how the brain controls itself, and to get there, we suggest treating the brain as an engineering system," said senior author Danielle Bassett, the Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science. "Cognitive control is a lot like engineering control: You model the system's dynamics by identifying key points; if I push on that one piece or pull this lever, I can offer a prediction of how it's going to affect other parts of the network."