{"id":216037,"date":"2025-06-16T14:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/thinking-in-sync-how-brain-rhythms-support-intelligence"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:12:40","slug":"thinking-in-sync-how-brain-rhythms-support-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/thinking-in-sync-how-brain-rhythms-support-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Thinking in sync: How brain rhythms support intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thinking-in-sync-how-brain-rhythms-support-intelligence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the brain is under pressure, certain neural signals begin to move in sync\u2014much like a well-rehearsed orchestra. A new study from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is the first to show how flexibly this neural synchrony adjusts to different situations and that this dynamic coordination is closely linked to cognitive abilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecific signals in the midfrontal brain region are better synchronized in people with higher cognitive ability\u2014especially during demanding phases of reasoning,\u201d explained Professor Anna-Lena Schubert from JGU\u2019s Institute of Psychology, lead author of the study <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.apa.org\/doi\/10.1037\/xge0001780\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the <i>Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The researchers focused on the midfrontal area of the brain and the measurable coordination of the so-called theta waves. These brainwaves oscillate between four and eight hertz and belong to the group of slower neural frequencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the brain is under pressure, certain neural signals begin to move in sync\u2014much like a well-rehearsed orchestra. A new study from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is the first to show how flexibly this neural synchrony adjusts to different situations and that this dynamic coordination is closely linked to cognitive abilities. \u201cSpecific signals in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216037","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}