{"id":236920,"date":"2026-05-11T18:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-neural-shortcut-to-language"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:08:28","slug":"the-neural-shortcut-to-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-neural-shortcut-to-language","title":{"rendered":"The Neural Shortcut to Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-neural-shortcut-to-language.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers use molecular barcoding to discover that Alston\u2019s singing mice evolved complex vocalizations through targeted tripling of neural projections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers use molecular barcoding to discover that Alston\u2019s singing mice evolved complex vocalizations through targeted tripling of neural projections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236920","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}