{"id":156451,"date":"2023-01-27T23:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T05:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/even-simple-motions-make-ripples-across-brain-study-finds"},"modified":"2023-01-27T23:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T05:24:14","slug":"even-simple-motions-make-ripples-across-brain-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/even-simple-motions-make-ripples-across-brain-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Even simple motions make ripples across brain, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/even-simple-motions-make-ripples-across-brain-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even a simple movement like pushing a button sends ripples of activity throughout networks of neurons spanning across the brain, new University of Oregon research shows.<\/p>\n<p>The finding highlights just how complex the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/human+brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human brain<\/a> is, challenging the simplified textbook picture of distinct <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> areas dedicated to specific functions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really well known that that the primary motor cortex controls <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/movement\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">movement<\/a> output,\u201d said Alex Rockhill, a graduate student in the lab of human physiology professor Nicki Swann. \u201cBut there\u2019s a lot more to movement than this one brain area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even a simple movement like pushing a button sends ripples of activity throughout networks of neurons spanning across the brain, new University of Oregon research shows. The finding highlights just how complex the human brain is, challenging the simplified textbook picture of distinct brain areas dedicated to specific functions. \u201cIt\u2019s really well known that that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156451","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}