A study that “helps us understand how ours is brain can record information derived from spatial reality the waves flow in a distinct pattern, which suggests that the brain of each individual seems capable of to map the walls and boundaries of the surrounding space “. Thus Nanthia Suthana, of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), recounted the research work involving a team of scholars from the American university, published in the journal”Nature”, From which it emerged that our brain is able to orient itself through physical space by keeping track of the position of others. And how its activity is characterized by specific brainwaves of orientation.
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The role of brain waves
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To underline this, as mentioned, the UCLA researchers, whose study was part of the National Institutes of Health’s – Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative (NIH BRAIN), a collaborative research project, conceived with the aim of supporting the development and application of innovative technologies useful for a deeper dynamic understanding of brain function. To reach their conclusions, the experts involved a group of participants with drug-resistant epilepsy, aged between 31 and 52, who were applied a series of electrodes to control their seizures. The study participants also wore some special backpacks, designed to analyze and monitor their brain waves, as they walked and moved around an empty room, looking for a hidden spot. “Each participant’s brainwaves flowed similarly when they sat in a corner of the room and watched someone else walk, this could suggest that the waves were also used to track other people’s movements,” Suthana explained. work confirms the idea that “in certain mental states some cells can redirect the functions of the organism, helping the brain to know where boundaries and obstacles are in the environment “.
A common code
From the results of the study, the expert pointed out, it was possible to understand that ours brain “Can use a common code to know where we are and where others are in various social contexts we have discovered that the low-frequency waves of activity neural they can help participants know where their mates are through a maze. “According to Matthias Stangl, first signatory of the research work,” several indirect evidence supports the role of the medial temporal lobe in how we orient ourselves, but test these ideas it was technically difficult, ”he said, explaining how this study provides“ the most direct evidence to date to support the hypothesis that humans are able to orient themselves and map the surrounding space to know where others are. ”
The study of natural movements
As mentioned, the research is part of the NIH BRAIN project, which aims to lead researchers to create new tools and use them to revolutionize what is currently known about the brain and brain disorders. “So far the only ways to directly study the business of human brain they required a subject to be stationary and lying in a huge brain scanner or connected to an electrical recording device, ”concluded John Ngai, director of the academic initiative. But now, “we can monitor the patient’s activity by observing natural movements”.
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