Classic video game system used to improve understanding of the brain

The complexity of neural networks makes them difficult to analyze, but humanmade computing systems should be simpler to understand. Researchers have now applied widely used neuroscience approaches to analyze the classic games console Atari 2600 — which runs the video game ‘Donkey Kong’ — and found that such approaches do not meaningfully describe how the console’s microprocessor really works.

(via WSJ)