brain traffic noun3 •The movement and coordination of internal signals that govern the working of the body and mind, especially neural impulses and hormones.In our healthy astronaut normal brain traffic is ordinarily so heavy that it swamps completely any weak trickle via the reducing valve. Therefore he is never normally subject to "imaginations." — 1969 •(figurative) An ability to think, with an emphasis on the limited capacity and speed a person is capable of, analogous to the limits of a road system for handling vehicular traffic.The Sea-Wolf bore down on me for all my brain-traffic would bear. — 1906 •(Internet) The discussion of ideas, especially over the Internet.To tie knowledge management directly to the university's nervous system, Nielsen created a Web site for its employees that acts as a brain traffic controller. — 2001
