{"id":237655,"date":"2026-05-23T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/neuroscientists-discover-the-brains-memory-center-starts-full-and-prunes-itself-down-to-optimize-learning"},"modified":"2026-05-23T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:06:11","slug":"neuroscientists-discover-the-brains-memory-center-starts-full-and-prunes-itself-down-to-optimize-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/neuroscientists-discover-the-brains-memory-center-starts-full-and-prunes-itself-down-to-optimize-learning","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientists discover the brain\u2019s memory center starts \u201cfull\u201d and prunes itself down to optimize learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscientists-discover-the-brains-memory-center-starts-full-and-prunes-itself-down-to-optimize-learning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Far from a blank slate, the infant brain begins with an overabundance of random neural connections. Neuroscientists discovered how trimming this excess wiring transforms the hippocampus into a powerful, structured memory machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far from a blank slate, the infant brain begins with an overabundance of random neural connections. Neuroscientists discovered how trimming this excess wiring transforms the hippocampus into a powerful, structured memory machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237655","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=237655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}