{"id":191327,"date":"2024-06-17T06:23:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T11:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/mit-neuroscientists-unlock-the-hidden-rhythms-of-the-mind"},"modified":"2024-06-17T06:23:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T11:23:49","slug":"mit-neuroscientists-unlock-the-hidden-rhythms-of-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/mit-neuroscientists-unlock-the-hidden-rhythms-of-the-mind","title":{"rendered":"MIT Neuroscientists Unlock the Hidden Rhythms of the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-neuroscientists-unlock-the-hidden-rhythms-of-the-mind3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT neuroscientists propose a new framework that describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields \u2014 a.k.a. brain \u201cwaves\u201d or \u201crhythms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It could be very informative to observe the pixels on your phone under a microscope, but not if your goal is to understand what a whole video on the screen shows. Cognition is much the same kind of emergent property in the brain. It can only be understood by observing how millions of cells act in coordination, argues a trio of MIT neuroscientists. In a new article, they lay out a framework for understanding how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields \u2014 also known as brain \u201cwaves\u201d or \u201crhythms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Significance of Brain Rhythms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT neuroscientists propose a new framework that describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields \u2014 a.k.a. brain \u201cwaves\u201d or \u201crhythms.\u201d It could be very informative to observe the pixels on your phone under a microscope, but not if your goal is to understand what a whole video [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191327","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=191327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}