{"id":220391,"date":"2025-08-19T04:28:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/an-alphabet-for-hand-actions-in-the-human-brain"},"modified":"2025-08-19T04:28:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:28:48","slug":"an-alphabet-for-hand-actions-in-the-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/an-alphabet-for-hand-actions-in-the-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"An alphabet for hand actions in the human brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-alphabet-for-hand-actions-in-the-human-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using a corkscrew, writing a letter with a pen or unlocking a door by turning a key are actions that seem simple but actually require a complex orchestration of precise movements. So, how does the brain do it?<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2421032122\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Coimbra, the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/human+brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human brain<\/a> has a specialized system that builds these actions in a surprisingly systematic way.<\/p>\n<p>Analogous to how all of the words in a language can be created by recombining the letters of its alphabet, the full repertoire of human hand actions can be built out of a small number of basic building block movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a corkscrew, writing a letter with a pen or unlocking a door by turning a key are actions that seem simple but actually require a complex orchestration of precise movements. So, how does the brain do it? According to a new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, by researchers from [\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-220391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220391","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=220391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}