{"id":221670,"date":"2025-09-10T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/rethinking-how-our-brains-build-the-neural-networks-underlying-motor-memories"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:07:20","slug":"rethinking-how-our-brains-build-the-neural-networks-underlying-motor-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/rethinking-how-our-brains-build-the-neural-networks-underlying-motor-memories","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking how our brains build the neural networks underlying motor memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rethinking-how-our-brains-build-the-neural-networks-underlying-motor-memories.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For every motor skill you\u2019ve ever learned, whether it\u2019s walking or watchmaking, there is a small ensemble of neurons in your brain that makes that movement happen. Our brains trigger these ensembles\u2014what we sometimes call \u201cmuscle memories\u201d\u2014to get our bodies cooking, showering, typing, and every other voluntary thing we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For every motor skill you\u2019ve ever learned, whether it\u2019s walking or watchmaking, there is a small ensemble of neurons in your brain that makes that movement happen. Our brains trigger these ensembles\u2014what we sometimes call \u201cmuscle memories\u201d\u2014to get our bodies cooking, showering, typing, and every other voluntary thing we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221670","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=221670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}