{"id":220710,"date":"2025-08-22T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/what-happens-in-the-brain-when-it-learns-something-new"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:18:48","slug":"what-happens-in-the-brain-when-it-learns-something-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/what-happens-in-the-brain-when-it-learns-something-new","title":{"rendered":"What happens in the brain when it learns something new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/70LX9FkXXew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Memories of significant learning experiences\u2014like the first time a driver gets a speeding ticket\u2014are sharp, compared to the recollection of everyday events\u2014like what someone ate for dinner two weeks ago. That\u2019s because the human brain is primed to learn from helpful associations.<\/p>\n<p>Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified specific neural connections that are especially sensitive to this process of learning about causality. The discovery, while seemingly intuitive, could have widespread implications for understanding how humans learn and inform new ways to address learning challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look out the window and see dark clouds, you know that it\u2019s going to rain and that you\u2019ll need an umbrella,\u201d said Eunsol Park, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, a joint program between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memories of significant learning experiences\u2014like the first time a driver gets a speeding ticket\u2014are sharp, compared to the recollection of everyday events\u2014like what someone ate for dinner two weeks ago. That\u2019s because the human brain is primed to learn from helpful associations. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified specific neural connections that are especially sensitive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220710","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=220710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}