{"id":165614,"date":"2023-06-12T05:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T10:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/where-imagination-lives-in-your-brain"},"modified":"2023-06-12T05:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T10:22:54","slug":"where-imagination-lives-in-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/where-imagination-lives-in-your-brain","title":{"rendered":"Where Imagination Lives in Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/where-imagination-lives-in-your-brain3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Henry Molaison, known for years as \u201cH.M.,\u201d was famously unable to form new memories. If someone he had met left the room only to return several minutes later, he would greet that person again as if for the first time. Because of surgery to treat intractable epilepsy, H M. lacked a sea-horse-shaped brain structure called the hippocampus and had amnesia. His case helped establish the hippocampus as an engine of memory.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years scientists have discovered another essential deficit that burdens people with hippocampal amnesia: they can\u2019t envision the range of possibilities that must be considered to make future plans. When researchers asked a group of people with hippocampal damage to\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The ability to conjure up possible futures or alternative realities is the flip side of memory. Both faculties cohabit in the brain region called the hippocampus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Molaison, known for years as \u201cH.M.,\u201d was famously unable to form new memories. If someone he had met left the room only to return several minutes later, he would greet that person again as if for the first time. Because of surgery to treat intractable epilepsy, H M. lacked a sea-horse-shaped brain structure called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165614","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}