{"id":221192,"date":"2025-08-30T04:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/how-the-distinctive-folds-in-the-brain-cortex-seen-in-humans-whales-other-animals-form"},"modified":"2025-08-30T04:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:15:22","slug":"how-the-distinctive-folds-in-the-brain-cortex-seen-in-humans-whales-other-animals-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/how-the-distinctive-folds-in-the-brain-cortex-seen-in-humans-whales-other-animals-form","title":{"rendered":"How the distinctive folds in the brain cortex, seen in humans, whales, other animals, form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-the-distinctive-folds-in-the-brain-cortex-seen-in-humans-whales-other-animals-form2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the defining features of humans is our brain\u2019s remarkable capacity for language, planning, memory, creativity, and more. These abilities stem not just from our large brain size, but also from the folded structure of the brain\u2019s outer layer, the cerebral cortex.<\/p>\n<p>A new study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-62858-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, offers insight into how these wrinkles form, pointing to a range of contributing factors\u2014including the number of early-stage <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain cells<\/a>, how they migrate during development, and the specific types of cells involved.<\/p>\n<p>These findings may help guide future research into brain development, evolution, and health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the defining features of humans is our brain\u2019s remarkable capacity for language, planning, memory, creativity, and more. These abilities stem not just from our large brain size, but also from the folded structure of the brain\u2019s outer layer, the cerebral cortex. A new study, published in the journal Nature Communications, offers insight 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":[385,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221192","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=221192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}