{"id":211982,"date":"2025-04-21T05:11:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T10:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/your-brain-doesnt-learn-the-way-we-thought-according-to-new-neuroscience-breakthrough"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T10:11:40","slug":"your-brain-doesnt-learn-the-way-we-thought-according-to-new-neuroscience-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/your-brain-doesnt-learn-the-way-we-thought-according-to-new-neuroscience-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Your brain doesn\u2019t learn the way we thought, according to new neuroscience breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-brain-doesnt-learn-the-way-we-thought-according-to-new-neuroscience-breakthrough.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These electrical pulses are communicated with other neurons through connections between them called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainfacts.org\/core-concepts\/how-neurons-communicate\">synapses<\/a>. Individual neurons have branching extensions known as dendrites that can receive thousands of electrical inputs from other cells. Dendrites transmit these inputs to the main body of the neuron, where it then <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nrn2286\">integrates all these signals<\/a> to generate its own electrical pulses.<\/p>\n<p>It is the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-neuro-092619-094115\">collective activity<\/a> of these electrical pulses across specific groups of neurons that form the representations of different information and experiences within the brain.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, neuroscientists have thought that the brain learns by changing how neurons are connected to one another. As new information and experiences alter how neurons communicate with each other and change their collective activity patterns, some synaptic connections are made stronger while others are made weaker. This process of synaptic plasticity is what produces representations of new information and experiences within your brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These electrical pulses are communicated with other neurons through connections between them called synapses. Individual neurons have branching extensions known as dendrites that can receive thousands of electrical inputs from other cells. Dendrites transmit these inputs to the main body of the neuron, where it then integrates all these signals to generate its own electrical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211982","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=211982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}