{"id":110727,"date":"2020-08-01T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T23:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/little-brain-or-cerebellum-not-so-little-after-all"},"modified":"2020-08-01T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T23:23:40","slug":"little-brain-or-cerebellum-not-so-little-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/little-brain-or-cerebellum-not-so-little-after-all","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Little brain\u2019 or cerebellum not so little after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l5uh1Se_KE4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When we say someone has a quick mind, it may be in part thanks to our expanded cerebellum that distinguishes human brains from those of macaque monkeys, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes referred to by its Latin translation as the \u2018\u201clittle brain\u201d\u2019, the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cerebellum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cerebellum<\/a> is located close to the brainstem and sits under the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cortex\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cortex<\/a> in the hindbrain. New research at San Diego State University, however, calls the \u201clittle\u201d terminology into question.<\/p>\n<p>The cerebellum plays a versatile role, contributing to our five senses as well as pain, movements, thought, and emotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we say someone has a quick mind, it may be in part thanks to our expanded cerebellum that distinguishes human brains from those of macaque monkeys, for example. Sometimes referred to by its Latin translation as the \u2018\u201clittle brain\u201d\u2019, the cerebellum is located close to the brainstem and sits under the cortex in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}