{"id":214491,"date":"2025-05-22T05:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/groovy-brains-may-be-more-efficient"},"modified":"2025-05-22T05:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:28:58","slug":"groovy-brains-may-be-more-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/groovy-brains-may-be-more-efficient","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Groovy\u2019 brains may be more efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/groovy-brains-may-be-more-efficient2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many grooves and dimples on the surface of the brain are unique to humans, but they\u2019re often dismissed as an uninteresting consequence of packing an unusually large brain into a too-small skull.<\/p>\n<p>But neuroscientists are finding that these folds are not mere artifacts, like the puffy folds you get when forcing a sleeping bag into a stuff sack. The depths of some of the smallest of these grooves seem to be linked to increased interconnectedness in the brain and better <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/reasoning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">reasoning<\/a> ability.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jneurosci.org\/content\/early\/2025\/05\/11\/JNEUROSCI.0726-24.2025\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>The Journal of Neuroscience<\/i>, University of California, Berkeley researchers show that in children and adolescents, the depths of some small grooves are correlated with increased connectivity between regions of the brain\u2014the lateral <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/prefrontal+cortex\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">prefrontal cortex<\/a> and lateral parietal cortex\u2014involved in reasoning and other high-level cognitive functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many grooves and dimples on the surface of the brain are unique to humans, but they\u2019re often dismissed as an uninteresting consequence of packing an unusually large brain into a too-small skull. But neuroscientists are finding that these folds are not mere artifacts, like the puffy folds you get when forcing a sleeping bag into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214491","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=214491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}