{"id":180805,"date":"2024-01-18T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/brain-connectivity-breakthrough-similar-neural-network-patterns-discovered-across-diverse-species"},"modified":"2024-01-18T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:24:10","slug":"brain-connectivity-breakthrough-similar-neural-network-patterns-discovered-across-diverse-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/brain-connectivity-breakthrough-similar-neural-network-patterns-discovered-across-diverse-species","title":{"rendered":"Brain Connectivity Breakthrough: Similar Neural Network Patterns Discovered Across Diverse Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-connectivity-breakthrough-similar-neural-network-patterns-discovered-across-diverse-species2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests different species may rely on a shared principle for neural network formation.<\/p>\n<p>In all species, brain function relies on an intricate network of connections that allows neurons to send information back and forth between one another, commanding thought and physical activity. But within those networks a small number of neurons share much stronger connections to one another than all the others. These abnormally strong connections\u2014known as \u201cheavy tailed\u201d based on the shape of their distribution\u2014are thought to play an outsized role in brain function.<\/p>\n<p>Research on Neural Network Connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests different species may rely on a shared principle for neural network formation. In all species, brain function relies on an intricate network of connections that allows neurons to send information back and forth between one another, commanding thought and physical activity. But within those networks a small number of neurons share [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180805","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}