 One should point out that the terminology of minimal model is also used in a different sense in the literature, for instance in Weisberg 2007 and Strevens 2008; in this second use, minimal models provide essential causal details. Chirimuuta 2014 distinguishes B-minimal models (of the Batterman type) and A-minimal models (of the Weisberg-Strevens type). Chirimuuta herself defines a class of minimal models (I-minimal models) that “figure prominently in explanations of why a particular neural system exhibits a particular empirically observed behaviour, by referring to its computational function.” (2014, p. 144)