Resource Constraints on Computation and Communication in the Brain
Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 611-615.
Abstract
This paper contributes to the emerging literature at the border between AI and cognitive neuroscience, analyzing the resource constraints that shape brain function. The brain is conceptualized as a set of ar-eas that collaborate to perform complex cognitive tasks. Both (1) computation within individual areas and (2) communication between collaborating ar-eas are viewed as resource-consuming activities. The efficient deployment of limited resources is formalized as a Linear Programming problem which the brain is hypothesized to solve on a mo-ment-by-moment basis. A model of language proc-essing is analyzed within this framework and found to exhibit resource utilization profiles consistent with those observed in functional neuroimaging studies of humans.
@inproceedings{ijcai2007p97,
title = {Resource Constraints on Computation and Communication in the Brain},
author = {Varma, Sashank},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-07}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Ramon López de Mántaras},
pages = {611--615},
year = {2007},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/97},
}
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