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The 10 bits/s bottleneck as error-correcting redundancy: an information-theoretic theory of cognitive reserve

2026-03-26

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Among individuals with equivalent Alzheimer’s pathology, cognitive outcomes can diverge by decades, a phenomenon termed cognitive reserve that remains descriptive after thirty years of research. We propose that the ∼10 9 -to-10 bits/s gap between sensory input and behavioral output functions as error-correcting redundancy in the sense of Shannon’s channel coding theorem. Progressive neuronal loss maps to symbol e...

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Literature Corpus work: e9cc9f0a-891e-55e3-bf05-ec92a65d39c9
DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.24.713899

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