{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Resource Constraints on Computation and Communication in the Brain","authors":[{"name":"Sashank Varma","slug":"sashank-varma","given":"Sashank","family":"Varma","affiliation":""}],"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.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/97","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/0097.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/97.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/bibtex/97","volume":{"slug":"2007","title":"Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2007","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/","year":2007,"location":"Hyderabad, India","dates":"","editors":"Ramon López de Mántaras","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":97,"pages":{"first":611,"last":615},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}