Traffic Jams In Your Brain 250
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timothy
from the call-mine-the-concentrator dept.
from the call-mine-the-concentrator dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Carl Zimmer's latest foray into neuroscience examines why the brain can get jammed up by a simple math problem: 'Its trillions of connections let it carry out all sorts of sophisticated computations in very little time. You can scan a crowded lobby and pick out a familiar face in a fraction of a second, a task that pushes even today's best computers to their limit. Yet multiplying 357 by 289, a task that demands a puny amount of processing, leaves most of us struggling.' Some scientists think mental tasks can get stuck in bottlenecks because everything has to go through a certain neural network they call 'the router.'"
Router eh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Router eh? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, hello sir, my name is Rasheed. I understand your router is down. Can you tell me what lights are on on your modem? No Modem? Hmm. Let me call my supervisor.
Re:Pulling it between layers of abstraction. (Score:5, Funny)
The brain arguably is man-made.
I think you'll find there's usually a woman involved in the process too. :)
Re:That was easy! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Pulling it between layers of abstraction. (Score:1, Funny)
Using their GPU for computing?