{"id":256499,"date":"2026-05-27T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/solving-the-mystery-of-motion-with-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:45:11","slug":"solving-the-mystery-of-motion-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/solving-the-mystery-of-motion-with-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving The Mystery Of Motion With AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnwerner\/2026\/05\/27\/solving-the-mystery-of-motion-with-ai\/\">Solving The Mystery Of Motion With AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnwerner\/2026\/05\/27\/solving-the-mystery-of-motion-with-ai\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnwerner\/2026\/05\/27\/solving-the-mystery-of-motion-with-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 02:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"-webkit-line-clamp:2\" class=\"Ccg9Ib-7 _8XF2kHYM\">AI (Artificial Intelligence) concept. 3D rendering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>getty<\/p>\n<p>On a very basic level, many of us understand that artificial intelligence is helping scientists to better understand the workings of the human brain itself \u2013 but how?<\/p>\n<p>An interesting insight comes from a presentation by Allison Hamilos called: The Neuroscience of Spontaneity &#038; Decision-Making<strong>. <\/strong>Hamilos has a bachelor&#8217;s degree in chemistry and biology from right here at MIT, and a PhD from Harvard. She\u2019s also a member of the Harvard-MIT Health Science and Technology Program.<\/p>\n<p>In her presentation, which she gave at a recent Science Dinner here in Boston, Hamilos presents some striking findings about human movement and how it happens: how the brain gives us the impulses that make us move around.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subhead-embed\">The Landscape<\/h2>\n<p>Hamilos starts by explaining the workings of \u201cmotor neurons\u201d and how many of these, working together, help to generate movement triggers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThousands of motor neurons suddenly start firing together in concert, and this avalanche of neural activity sends signals down through the spinal cord to cause muscle fibers to contract,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is why we move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the work going on now is to figure out how those little avalanches get spawned.<\/p>\n<p>In search of this answer, Hamilos makes a very critical distinction, between movement that is immediately reactive, sometimes almost involuntary, and movement that is elective, which can seem so capricious that it\u2019s hard to analyze exactly why it happens at a particular instant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot all movements result from abrupt sensory events,\u201d Hamilos notes, and it\u2019s those movements that really incite the most curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>By way of at least partial explanation, Hamilos talks about Parkinson\u2019s disease, where science has found that the underlying \u201cmotivators\u201d are impaired or inhibited in some way. Movement, she notes, is slower, on the whole. There\u2019s also the concept of \u201cparadoxical kinesia,\u201d where a subject might display a discrepancy that looks like this: he&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnwerner\/2026\/05\/27\/solving-the-mystery-of-motion-with-ai\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solving The Mystery Of Motion With AI https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnwerner\/2026\/05\/27\/solving-the-mystery-of-motion-with-ai\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-27 02:43:00 Source Domain: www.forbes.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/68a0ac9bd9f15ef6350b478b\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-256499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256502,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256499\/revisions\/256502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}