{"id":3823,"date":"2020-09-11T09:21:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T13:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2020-09-11T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T13:22:08","slug":"scientists-show-how-brain-flexibility-emerges-in-infants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/scientists-show-how-brain-flexibility-emerges-in-infants\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Show How Brain Flexibility Emerges in Infants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2019\/01\/ScientistsShowHowBrainFlexibilityEmergesInfants.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3820 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2019\/01\/ScientistsShowHowBrainFlexibilityEmergesInfants-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2019\/01\/ScientistsShowHowBrainFlexibilityEmergesInfants-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2019\/01\/ScientistsShowHowBrainFlexibilityEmergesInfants-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2019\/01\/ScientistsShowHowBrainFlexibilityEmergesInfants-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2019\/01\/ScientistsShowHowBrainFlexibilityEmergesInfants-600x393.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2019\/01\/ScientistsShowHowBrainFlexibilityEmergesInfants.jpg 1416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Cognitive flexibility, which refers to the brain\u2019s ability to switch between mental processes in response to external stimuli and different task demands, seems to begin developing during the first two years of life, which is much earlier than previously thought. UNC BRIC researchers led by Weili Lin, PhD, used magnetic resonance imaging techniques to show the emergence of a functional flexible brain during early infancy.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/news\/2020\/august\/scientists-show-how-brain-flexibility-emerges-in-infants\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive flexibility, which refers to the brain\u2019s ability to switch between mental processes in response to external stimuli and different task demands, seems to begin developing during the first two years of life, which is much earlier than previously thought. UNC BRIC researchers led by Weili Lin, PhD, used magnetic resonance imaging techniques to show &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/scientists-show-how-brain-flexibility-emerges-in-infants\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Scientists Show How Brain Flexibility Emerges in Infants\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28418,"featured_media":3820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-3823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-spotlight","tag-unc-bric","tag-weili-lin","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2019\/01\/ScientistsShowHowBrainFlexibilityEmergesInfants.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2019\/01\/ScientistsShowHowBrainFlexibilityEmergesInfants-300x196.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2019\/01\/ScientistsShowHowBrainFlexibilityEmergesInfants-768x503.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2019\/01\/ScientistsShowHowBrainFlexibilityEmergesInfants-1024x670.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2019\/01\/ScientistsShowHowBrainFlexibilityEmergesInfants-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"ScientistsShowHowBrainFlexibilityEmergesInfants","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/category\/news\/"},{"name":"Spotlight","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/category\/spotlight\/"}],"tag_details":[{"name":"UNC BRIC","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/tag\/unc-bric\/"},{"name":"Weili Lin","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/tag\/weili-lin\/"}],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}