Pens clicking, fingers tapping, heels bouncing, and hair being twiddled. These are just some of the movements you’ll see inside an office. But humans aren’t alone in being jittery — mice, too, fidget while they work.
What’s more, this seemingly useless motion has a profound and widespread effect on mice’s brain activity, neuroscientist Anne Churchland of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and colleagues report September 24 in Nature Neuroscience. Scientists don’t yet know what this brain activity means, but one possibility is that body motion may actually shape thinking.
Find out more about the study over at ScienceNews.
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