{"id":222151,"date":"2025-09-19T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/rhythm-beats-volume-how-the-brain-keeps-the-world-looking-familiar"},"modified":"2025-09-19T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:26:09","slug":"rhythm-beats-volume-how-the-brain-keeps-the-world-looking-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/rhythm-beats-volume-how-the-brain-keeps-the-world-looking-familiar","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rhythm beats volume\u2019: How the brain keeps the world looking familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rhythm-beats-volume-how-the-brain-keeps-the-world-looking-familiar.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brain is famously plastic: Neurons\u2019 ability to change their behavior in response to new stimuli is what makes learning possible. And even neurons\u2019 response to the same stimuli changes over time\u2014a phenomenon known as representational drift. Yet our day-to-day perception of the world is relatively stable. How so?<\/p>\n<p>Resolving such puzzles matters for future brain-computer interfaces, sensory prostheses and therapies for neurological disease. On a quest for an answer, Rice University scientists have built ultraflexible probes thousands of times thinner than a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/human+hair\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human hair<\/a> and used them to track neurons in the visual cortex of mice for 15 consecutive days as the animals viewed thousands of images\u2014from line patterns to pictures of the natural world.<\/p>\n<p>The devices, called nanoelectronic threads (NETs), embed seamlessly with <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+tissue\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain tissue<\/a>, allowing for high-fidelity chronic recordings of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+activity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain activity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brain is famously plastic: Neurons\u2019 ability to change their behavior in response to new stimuli is what makes learning possible. And even neurons\u2019 response to the same stimuli changes over time\u2014a phenomenon known as representational drift. Yet our day-to-day perception of the world is relatively stable. How so? Resolving such puzzles matters for future [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222151","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=222151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}