{"id":204034,"date":"2025-01-18T17:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T23:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/neural-populations-are-dynamic-but-constrained"},"modified":"2025-01-18T17:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T23:09:47","slug":"neural-populations-are-dynamic-but-constrained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/neural-populations-are-dynamic-but-constrained","title":{"rendered":"Neural populations are dynamic but constrained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neural-populations-are-dynamic-but-constrained.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our brains evolved to help us rapidly learn new things. But anyone who has put in hours of practice to perfect their tennis serve, only to reach a plateau, can attest that our brains aren\u2019t infinitely flexible. New work shows that patterns of neural activity over time \u2014 the temporal dynamics of neural populations \u2014 cannot change rapidly, suggesting that neural activity dynamics may both reflect and constrain how the brain performs computations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our brains evolved to help us rapidly learn new things. But anyone who has put in hours of practice to perfect their tennis serve, only to reach a plateau, can attest that our brains aren\u2019t infinitely flexible. New work shows that patterns of neural activity over time \u2014 the temporal dynamics of neural populations \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204034","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}