Douglas_Knight comments on [LINK] Brain region changes shape with learning the layout of London - Less Wrong

1 Post author: whpearson 12 December 2011 05:01PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 12 December 2011 06:24:28PM 5 points [-]

"usually"? do you have other examples? My guess is that you just mean that your prior is that it should be zero-sum.

Comment author: gwern 12 December 2011 06:29:40PM 1 point [-]

I mean that in the past when I read of some specialized training 'increasing brain size' and I've investigated, there's always been some penalty - some other brain area shrunk to compensate or measured performance went down, or something.