{"id":1879,"date":"2017-04-06T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2017-12-28T01:03:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T01:03:12","slug":"your-brain-is-like-a-computer-take-357","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/your-brain-is-like-a-computer-take-357\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Brain Is Like a Computer, take 357"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_96435896_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1881 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_96435896_Credit-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_96435896_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_96435896_Credit-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_96435896_Credit-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because brains are so complicated, people who explain them routinely search for analogies.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your brain is like a muscle: practice makes it grow stronger.<\/li>\n<li>Your brain is like an orchestra, and the prefrontal cortex is the conductor.<\/li>\n<li>Brain-derived neurotrophic factor is like MiracleGro for synapses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All such analogies have weaknesses; a few of them have their uses. Most often, the brain is so amazingly unusual that it&#8217;s like itself and nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/scienmag.com\/the-internet-and-your-brain-are-more-alike-than-you-think\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> from Science Magazine, however, offers a precise and unusual analogy (and, an unusually precise analogy): your brain is like the internet. Specifically, the way long-term memories strengthen (and weaken) resembles control of information flow on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Especially if you&#8217;re technology savvy, you might enjoy this particular comparison.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got brain analogies that you especially like &#8212; or don&#8217;t like &#8212; you might put them in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because brains are so complicated, people who explain them routinely search for analogies. Your brain is like a muscle: practice makes it grow stronger. Your brain is like an orchestra, and the prefrontal cortex is the conductor. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor is like MiracleGro for synapses. All such analogies have weaknesses; a few of them have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}