{"id":186806,"date":"2024-04-04T20:26:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T01:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/study-reveals-that-the-brains-cerebellum-can-shape-cognition"},"modified":"2024-04-04T20:26:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T01:26:04","slug":"study-reveals-that-the-brains-cerebellum-can-shape-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/study-reveals-that-the-brains-cerebellum-can-shape-cognition","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals that the brain\u2019s cerebellum can shape cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-reveals-that-the-brains-cerebellum-can-shape-cognition3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you reward a monkey with some juice, it will learn which hand to move in response to a specific visual cue\u2014but only if the cerebellum is functioning properly. So say neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Columbia University, who recently published findings in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> that show the brain region plays a crucial role in reward-based learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you reward a monkey with some juice, it will learn which hand to move in response to a specific visual cue\u2014but only if the cerebellum is functioning properly. So say neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Columbia University, who recently published findings in Nature Communications that show the brain region [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186806","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=186806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}