{"id":221296,"date":"2025-09-02T03:27:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/neuroscientists-show-for-first-time-that-precise-timing-of-nerve-signals-determines-how-brain-processes-information"},"modified":"2025-09-02T03:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:27:32","slug":"neuroscientists-show-for-first-time-that-precise-timing-of-nerve-signals-determines-how-brain-processes-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/neuroscientists-show-for-first-time-that-precise-timing-of-nerve-signals-determines-how-brain-processes-information","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientists show for first time that precise timing of nerve signals determines how brain processes information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscientists-show-for-first-time-that-precise-timing-of-nerve-signals-determines-how-brain-processes-information2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has long been known that the brain preferentially processes information that we focus our attention on\u2014a classic example is the so-called cocktail party effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an environment full of voices, music, and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/background+noise\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">background noise<\/a>, the brain manages to concentrate on a single voice. The other noises are not objectively quieter, but are perceived less strongly at that moment,\u201d explains brain researcher Dr. Eric Drebitz from the University of Bremen.<\/p>\n<p>The brain focuses its processing on the information that is currently relevant\u2014in this case, the voice of the conversation partner\u2014while other signals are received but not forwarded and processed to the same extent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has long been known that the brain preferentially processes information that we focus our attention on\u2014a classic example is the so-called cocktail party effect. \u201cIn an environment full of voices, music, and background noise, the brain manages to concentrate on a single voice. The other noises are not objectively quieter, but are perceived less [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221296","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=221296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}