| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP8408 |
| DP8408 Resource Allocation in the Brain | |
| Juan Carrillo; Isabelle Brocas; Ricardo Alonso | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-06-01 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | When an individual performs several tasks simultaneously, resources must be allocated to different brain systems to produce energy for neurons to fire. Following the evidence from neuroscience, we model the brain as an organization in which a coordinator allocates limited resources to the brain systems responsible for the different tasks. Systems are privately informed about the amount of resources necessary to perform their task and compete to obtain the resources. The coordinator arbitrates the demands while satisfying the resource constraint. We show that the optimal mechanism is to impose to each system with privately known needs a cap in resources that depends negatively on the amount of resources requested by the other system. This allocation can be implemented using a physiologically plausible mechanism. Finally, we provide some implications of our theory: (i) performance is inversely related to the difficulty of the task and can be flawless for sufficiently simple tasks, (ii) the dynamic allocation rule exhibits inertia (current allocations are increasing in past needs), and (iii) different cognitive tasks are performed by different systems only if the tasks are sufficiently important. |
| 主题 | Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Mechanism design Multiple brain systems Neural darwinism Neuroeconomic theory |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8408 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537245 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Juan Carrillo,Isabelle Brocas,Ricardo Alonso. DP8408 Resource Allocation in the Brain. 2011. |
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