{"id":29983,"date":"2016-09-08T16:49:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T23:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/neuroscience-linking-perception-to-action"},"modified":"2016-09-08T16:49:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T23:49:11","slug":"neuroscience-linking-perception-to-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/neuroscience-linking-perception-to-action","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscience: Linking perception to action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprised by these findings.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A UC Santa Barbara researcher studying how the brain uses perception of the environment to guide action has a new understanding of the neural circuits responsible for transforming sensation into movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMapping perception to a future action seems simple,\u201d UCSB neuroscientist Michael Goard. \u201cWe do it all the time when we see a traffic light and use that information to guide our later motor action. However, how these associations are mapped across time in the brain is not well understood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a new paper, published in the journal <em>eLife<\/em>, Goard and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology make progress in mapping brain activity in mice during simple but fundamental cognitive tasks. Although a mouse\u2019s brain is much smaller than a human\u2019s, remarkable structural similarities exist. The mouse brain is composed of about 75 million nerve cells or neurons, which are wired together in complex networks that unerlie sophisticated behaviors.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/09\/160908131001.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/09\/160908131001.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprised by these findings. A UC Santa Barbara researcher studying how the brain uses perception of the environment to guide action has a new understanding of the neural circuits responsible for transforming sensation into movement. \u201cMapping perception to a future action seems simple,\u201d UCSB neuroscientist Michael Goard. \u201cWe do it all the time when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29983","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}