{"id":227507,"date":"2025-12-20T01:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/why-some-brains-switch-gears-more-efficiently-than-others"},"modified":"2025-12-20T01:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:24:29","slug":"why-some-brains-switch-gears-more-efficiently-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/why-some-brains-switch-gears-more-efficiently-than-others","title":{"rendered":"Why some brains switch gears more efficiently than others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-some-brains-switch-gears-more-efficiently-than-others.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The human brain is constantly processing information that unfolds at different speeds\u2014from split-second reactions to sudden environmental changes to slower, more reflective processes such as understanding context or meaning.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-66542-w\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> from Rutgers Health, published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, sheds light on how the brain integrates these fast and slow signals across its complex web of white matter connectivity pathways to support cognition and behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Different regions of the brain are specialized for processing information over specific time windows, a property known as intrinsic neural timescales, or INTs for short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human brain is constantly processing information that unfolds at different speeds\u2014from split-second reactions to sudden environmental changes to slower, more reflective processes such as understanding context or meaning. A new study from Rutgers Health, published in Nature Communications, sheds light on how the brain integrates these fast and slow signals across its complex web [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227507","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=227507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}