{"id":154682,"date":"2023-01-06T12:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/the-brains-ability-to-perceive-space-expands-like-the-universe"},"modified":"2023-01-06T12:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:24:41","slug":"the-brains-ability-to-perceive-space-expands-like-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/the-brains-ability-to-perceive-space-expands-like-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"The Brain\u2019s Ability to Perceive Space Expands Like the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-brains-ability-to-perceive-space-expands-like-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Time spent in a novel environment causes neural representations to grow in a surprising way.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Salk Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Young children sometimes believe that the moon is following them, or that they can reach out and touch it. It appears to be much closer than is proportional to its true distance. As we move about our daily lives, we tend to think that we navigate space in a linear way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Time spent in a novel environment causes neural representations to grow in a surprising way. Source: Salk Institute. Young children sometimes believe that the moon is following them, or that they can reach out and touch it. It appears to be much closer than is proportional to its true distance. As we move about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154682","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}