An optimal brain can be composed of conflicting agents

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3198-3202

  Livnat, Adi ^a   Pippenger, Nicholas ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Collective decision making; Computational complexity; Levels of selection; Modularity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RATS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33644780819     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0510932103     Document Type: Article

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