{"id":35277,"date":"2013-03-21T06:25:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T10:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=35277"},"modified":"2013-03-21T06:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T10:25:36","slug":"brain-waves-show-that-area-specific-understanding-of-brain-function-is-too-rigid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/brain-waves-show-that-area-specific-understanding-of-brain-function-is-too-rigid\/","title":{"rendered":""Brain Waves" Show That Area-Specific Understanding Of Brain Function Is Too Rigid"},"content":{"rendered":"
The modern scientific understanding of how brains function has primarily been based around area-specific associations — when you talk the “speech” area of the brain is activated, etc. But now, new research on “brain waves” is shedding further light on how the brain actually works. While it has been known for quite some time that a function isn’t really tied to one location, and that the brain is essentially very plastic with different regions being able to do more or less any function, the new work adds to that, showing that the entire cortex is activated during more or less any task. And interestingly, the activity “occurs in a pattern: waves of activity roll from one side of the brain to the other.”<\/p>\n