{"id":216549,"date":"2025-06-25T02:04:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/how-new-information-triggers-the-brain-to-navigate-changing-environments"},"modified":"2025-06-25T02:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:04:59","slug":"how-new-information-triggers-the-brain-to-navigate-changing-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/how-new-information-triggers-the-brain-to-navigate-changing-environments","title":{"rendered":"How new information triggers the brain to navigate changing environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-new-information-triggers-the-brain-to-navigate-changing-environments.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-60122-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, biomedical engineers have shown how two brain regions quickly adapt to shift focus from one planned destination to another.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Prince explains her research with a scenario many Atlantans can relate to. Imagine you\u2019re driving to the Atlanta airport to pick up a friend. They call to say they\u2019re in the terminal\u2014but they\u2019re not sure which one. North, maybe? You head in that direction through the maze of roads around the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Then they call back. They\u2019re actually in the South Terminal. So you make a quick mental adjustment and switch your route to arrive at the correct side of the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications, biomedical engineers have shown how two brain regions quickly adapt to shift focus from one planned destination to another. Stephanie Prince explains her research with a scenario many Atlantans can relate to. Imagine you\u2019re driving to the Atlanta airport to pick up a friend. They call [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216549","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}