Computational Efficiency: A Common Organizing Principle for Parallel Computer Maps and Brain Maps?

Abstract

It is well-known that neural responses in particular brain regions are spatially organized, but no general principles have been de(cid:173) veloped that relate the structure of a brain map to the nature of the associated computation. On parallel computers, maps of a sort quite similar to brain maps arise when a computation is distributed across multiple processors. In this paper we will discuss the rela(cid:173) tionship between maps and computations on these computers and suggest how similar considerations might also apply to maps in the brain.

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Text

Nelson and Bower. "Computational Efficiency: A Common Organizing Principle for Parallel Computer Maps and Brain Maps?." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1989.

Markdown

[Nelson and Bower. "Computational Efficiency: A Common Organizing Principle for Parallel Computer Maps and Brain Maps?." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1989.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1989/nelson1989neurips-computational/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{nelson1989neurips-computational,
  title     = {{Computational Efficiency: A Common Organizing Principle for Parallel Computer Maps and Brain Maps?}},
  author    = {Nelson, Mark E. and Bower, James M.},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {1989},
  pages     = {60-67},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1989/nelson1989neurips-computational/}
}