{"id":412,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:05:22","slug":"brain-functioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Brain functioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">\u00a0<strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">OUR BRAINS<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">How can we witness them functioning?<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Until few decades ago, researchers had to perform post mortem dissections on the brains of healthy individuals and those with localized brain lesions, or selectively destroy certain parts in animal brains, or apply electrical stimuli during surgical operations, so as to figure out how brains function.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Now, a variety of imaging technologies have revolutionized brain research. Scientists can see what happens inside someone\u2019s brains without having to open up their skulls. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">They can ask people to perform specific mental tasks, and then \u201cwatch their brains think\u201d as they perform these tasks in real time. Progress in computer science and newly discovered forms of radiation made the development of these imaging technologies possible.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/brain-words.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"269\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=413\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0OUR BRAINS How can we witness them functioning?\u00a0 Until few decades ago, researchers had to perform post mortem dissections on the brains of healthy individuals and those with localized brain lesions, or selectively destroy certain parts in animal brains, or apply electrical stimuli during surgical operations, so as to figure out how brains function. Now,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9266,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/9266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}