Folding the cortical surface
Small-world architecture
Arousal
"Stone age brain in a modern skull"
Metabolic Cost of Brain
Functional Capacity of Brain
Stanley Milgram
An evolutionary strategy to reduce the length of interconnective fibres, shortening distances between brain regions.
A phrase describing how slow human evolution results in a brain adapted for an ancestral environment facing modern challenges.
Conducted the "small world problem" experiment, which demonstrated short connection chains between people and inspired a brain architecture model.
Accounts for 20% of the body's resting metabolism despite being only 2% of body weight.
Inherently limited by its neural architecture and signal-processing time, which evolution has optimised through trade-offs.
A network with dense local connectivity and few long-distance connections, optimising processing volume and speed.
The baseline amount of attentional resources available, where performance is optimal at a moderate level, not too high or too low.
