{"id":203277,"date":"2025-01-07T11:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/how-electrical-synapses-fine-tune-sensory-information-for-better-decisions"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:42:56","slug":"how-electrical-synapses-fine-tune-sensory-information-for-better-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/how-electrical-synapses-fine-tune-sensory-information-for-better-decisions","title":{"rendered":"How electrical synapses fine-tune sensory information for better decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-electrical-synapses-fine-tune-sensory-information-for-better-decisions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Yale and the University of Connecticut have taken a major step in understanding how animal brains make decisions, revealing a crucial role for electrical synapses in \u201cfiltering\u201d sensory information.<\/p>\n<p>The new research, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2024.11.037\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Cell<\/i>, demonstrates how a specific configuration of electrical synapses enables animals to make context-appropriate choices, even when faced with similar sensory inputs.<\/p>\n<p>Animal brains are constantly bombarded with sensory information\u2014sights, sounds, smells, and more. Making sense of this information, scientists say, requires a sophisticated filtering system that focuses on relevant details and enables an animal to act accordingly. Such a filtering system doesn\u2019t simply block out \u201cnoise\u201d\u2014it actively prioritizes information depending on the situation. Focusing on certain sensory information and deploying a context-specific behavior is known as \u201caction selection.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Yale and the University of Connecticut have taken a major step in understanding how animal brains make decisions, revealing a crucial role for electrical synapses in \u201cfiltering\u201d sensory information. The new research, published in the journal Cell, demonstrates how a specific configuration of electrical synapses enables animals to make context-appropriate choices, even when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203277","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}