{"id":164489,"date":"2023-05-24T14:23:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/is-it-real-or-imagined-how-your-brain-tells-the-difference"},"modified":"2023-05-24T14:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:23:36","slug":"is-it-real-or-imagined-how-your-brain-tells-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/is-it-real-or-imagined-how-your-brain-tells-the-difference","title":{"rendered":"Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-it-real-or-imagined-how-your-brain-tells-the-difference.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New experiments show that the brain distinguishes between perceived and imagined mental images by checking whether they cross a \u201creality threshold.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New experiments show that the brain distinguishes between perceived and imagined mental images by checking whether they cross a \u201creality threshold.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164489","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}