Cortex and subcortex play distinct roles over learning when cortical memory is limited

ArXi:2606.00667v1 Announce Type: cross It has been proposed that the brain integrates flexible, computationally expensive cortical processing with simpler, lower-cost subcortical mechanisms to achieve resource-efficient performance greater than that of either system alone. Despite the allure of this perspective, satisfying theoretical frameworks that explore this hypothesis are still limited.