{"id":174176,"date":"2023-10-14T03:52:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T08:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/newly-discovered-spirals-of-brain-activity-may-help-explain-cognition"},"modified":"2023-10-14T03:52:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T08:52:27","slug":"newly-discovered-spirals-of-brain-activity-may-help-explain-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/newly-discovered-spirals-of-brain-activity-may-help-explain-cognition","title":{"rendered":"Newly Discovered Spirals of Brain Activity May Help Explain Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-discovered-spirals-of-brain-activity-may-help-explain-cognition2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one idea for how the brain organizes itself to support our thoughts, feelings, and emotions. But if the brain\u2019s information processing dynamics are like waves, what happens when there\u2019s turbulence?<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the brain does experience the equivalent of neural \u201churricanes.\u201d They bump into one another, and when they do, the resulting computations correlate with cognition.<\/p>\n<p>These findings come from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-023-01626-5\">unique study<\/a> in <em>Nature Human Behavior<\/em> that bridges neuroscience and fluid dynamics to unpack the inner workings of the human mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s one idea for how the brain organizes itself to support our thoughts, feelings, and emotions. But if the brain\u2019s information processing dynamics are like waves, what happens when there\u2019s turbulence? In fact, the brain does experience the equivalent of neural \u201churricanes.\u201d They bump into one another, and when they do, the resulting computations correlate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174176","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}