Title :
Data compression in brains
Author :
Alvager, T. ; French, V.A. ; Putman, G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Life Sci., Indiana State Univ., Terre Haute, IN, USA
Abstract :
Data compression involves packaging data in an efficient manner. It is a common phenomenon in man-made computers. If is reasonable to assume that something similar occurs in brains. It is proposed that experimental evidence for this is given by the data on decreasing density of synaptic connections in brains with age. The proposed effect is reviewed in relation to computations with simple brain models in the form of a specific artificial neural network
Keywords :
brain models; data compression; neural nets; physiological models; artificial neural network; brains; data compression; synaptic connections; Application software; Artificial neural networks; Biological neural networks; Brain modeling; Computer networks; Data compression; Frequency measurement; Neurofeedback; Packaging; Physics;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks Proceedings, 1998. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. The 1998 IEEE International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anchorage, AK
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4859-1
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.1998.686013
