{"id":193137,"date":"2026-03-05T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/learning-makes-brain-cells-work-together-not-apart\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:10:15","slug":"learning-makes-brain-cells-work-together-not-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/learning-makes-brain-cells-work-together-not-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning makes brain cells work together, not apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/learning-makes-brain-cells-work-together-not-apart-694722\/\">Learning makes brain cells work together, not apart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/learning-makes-brain-cells-work-together-not-apart-694722\/\">https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/learning-makes-brain-cells-work-together-not-apart-694722\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-05 14:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.rochester.edu\">www.rochester.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new study from researchers at the University of Rochester challenges the longstanding neuroscience theory that learning makes the brain more efficient by encouraging independent neuron activity.<\/li>\n<li>The study reveals that learning instead increases the coordination and shared activity among neurons during actively performed tasks.<\/li>\n<li>This coordination is attributed to the brain&#8217;s growing reliance on internal expectations and feedback from higher-level brain areas, rather than purely acting independently. <\/li>\n<li>The findings indicate that sensory areas actively combine new sensory information with learned expectations, reshaping how scientists think about perception and decision-making.<\/li>\n<li>The study holds implications for understanding learning disorders and could inspire the development of more flexible, human-like artificial intelligence systems by mimicking the brain&#8217;s coordination mechanisms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning makes brain cells work together, not apart https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/learning-makes-brain-cells-work-together-not-apart-694722\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-05 14:09:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fea-Snyder-Haefner-classroom-1200x630.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-193137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193139,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193137\/revisions\/193139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}