{"id":126909,"date":"2021-08-29T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T19:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/scientists-claim-they-discovered-the-gate-of-consciousness"},"modified":"2021-08-29T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T19:22:19","slug":"scientists-claim-they-discovered-the-gate-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/scientists-claim-they-discovered-the-gate-of-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Scientists claim they discovered the \u201cgate of consciousness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-claim-they-discovered-the-gate-of-consciousness3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because we can\u2019t possibly absorb every single stimulus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/48300-why-is-it-hard-to-focus-research-humans\">our brain<\/a> lets some of these signals filter through to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/mind-body\/relationship-between-two-brain-networks-keeps-us-conscious\">our consciousness<\/a> while others don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>But where specifically in the brain does that filtering take place? If somewhere in the brain exists the gateway to consciousness, which part of the brain functions as the gatekeeper?<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School set out to answer this question. Their study, <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.celrep.2021.109081\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">published<\/a> Tuesday in <em>Cell Reports<\/em>, suggests they\u2019ve found the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we can\u2019t possibly absorb every single stimulus, our brain lets some of these signals filter through to our consciousness while others don\u2019t. But where specifically in the brain does that filtering take place? If somewhere in the brain exists the gateway to consciousness, which part of the brain functions as the gatekeeper? Researchers at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}