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Neuroscience helped inspire early AI, but modern citation patterns may not show how much the field still owes it. Renato Duarte’s analysis traces connections across roughly 458 million works and 2.9 billion citation links.

In a response published by The Transmitter, Anthony Zador argues that citations capture recent technical hand-offs better than older intellectual roots. Foundational ideas can become so widely absorbed that researchers stop citing their origins. A useful reminder that counting references is not quite the same as tracing an idea’s family tree.

Discuss: How should researchers measure intellectual influence when a field’s foundational ideas may disappear into its everyday practice?

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