Wiring Optimization in the Brain
Abstract
The complexity of cortical circuits may be characterized by the number of synapses per neuron. We study the dependence of complexity on the fraction of the cortical volume that is made up of "wire" (that is, ofaxons and dendrites), and find that complexity is maximized when wire takes up about 60% of the cortical volume. This prediction is in good agree(cid:173) ment with experimental observations. A consequence of our arguments is that any rearrangement of neurons that takes more wire would sacrifice computational power.
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Chklovskii and Stevens. "Wiring Optimization in the Brain." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1999.Markdown
[Chklovskii and Stevens. "Wiring Optimization in the Brain." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1999.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1999/chklovskii1999neurips-wiring/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{chklovskii1999neurips-wiring,
title = {{Wiring Optimization in the Brain}},
author = {Chklovskii, Dmitri B. and Stevens, Charles F.},
booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
year = {1999},
pages = {103-107},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1999/chklovskii1999neurips-wiring/}
}