The Human Brain Project should give more emphasis to interdisciplinarity and to cognitive neuroscience, a mediator appointed to tackle dissatisfaction with the project has suggested.
The suggestion is included in a mediation report handed to the board of directors of the HBP on 9 March. The report was the result of a process set up to address criticisms from a group of neuroscientists, who complained that the project had too strong an emphasis on computer modelling.
The report puts forward recommendations regarding the project’s scientific programme and its governance. According to Wolfgang Marquardt, mediator in the process, neurocognitive sciences should be “integrated substantially” through the creation of additional cross-cutting projects, which will be added to existing ones.
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