Is the brain a resource-cheapskate?

Any action requires energy. The body's muscles need energy in order to contract and the neurons in one's brain need energy in order to function. In the current paper we will discuss two presumably contradicting bodies of research. The first suggests that the brain invests minimal effort in high-demand tasks. The second suggests that we constantly spread our mental energy. We will refer to these findings and suggest some important rules that govern the consumption of mental energy.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2014-10-24

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00857PMID 25386130PMCID 4208413
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

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