{"id":77535,"date":"2018-04-06T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/our-brain-learns-completely-differently-than-experts-assumed-for-nearly-a-century"},"modified":"2018-04-06T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T05:13:00","slug":"our-brain-learns-completely-differently-than-experts-assumed-for-nearly-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/our-brain-learns-completely-differently-than-experts-assumed-for-nearly-a-century","title":{"rendered":"Our Brain Learns Completely Differently Than Experts Assumed For Nearly A Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-brain-learns-completely-differently-than-experts-assumed-for-nearly-a-century.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Researchers just overturned a 70-year-old fundamental understanding of how our brains learn \u2013 paving the way for faster, more advanced AI applications and a different approach to medical treatments for brain disorders. [<a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/brain-learns-dendrites-synapses-neurons-hebbs-axiom\/\">This article<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">LongevityFacts<\/a>. Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman.<\/a> ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Researchers just overturned the way scientists thought our brains learn \u2013 a view that up until now has been widely accepted for almost 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery-based upon new experimental evidence \u2013 paves the way for more modern artificial intelligence (AI) applications such as machine learning and deep learning algorithms that imitate our brain functions at a much faster speed with advanced features. Moreover, the research may change how doctors view disorders of the brain, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/precision-treatments-alzheimers-disease-part2\/\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> and may alter <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/hunting-cures-dementia-best-2017-alzheimers-parkinsons-reports\/\">treatments for other forms of dementia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/brain-learns-dendrites-synapses-neurons-hebbs-axiom\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/brain-learns-dendrites-synapses-neurons-hebbs-axiom\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers just overturned a 70-year-old fundamental understanding of how our brains learn \u2013 paving the way for faster, more advanced AI applications and a different approach to medical treatments for brain disorders. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ] Researchers just overturned the way scientists thought our brains learn \u2013 a view [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77535","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\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}