{"id":167839,"date":"2023-07-19T16:29:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/study-sheds-light-on-where-conscious-experience-resides-in-brain"},"modified":"2023-07-19T16:29:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T21:29:13","slug":"study-sheds-light-on-where-conscious-experience-resides-in-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/study-sheds-light-on-where-conscious-experience-resides-in-brain","title":{"rendered":"Study sheds light on where conscious experience resides in brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-sheds-light-on-where-conscious-experience-resides-in-brain3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than a quarter of all stroke victims develop a bizarre disorder\u2014they lose conscious awareness of half of all that their eyes perceive.<\/p>\n<p>After a stroke in the brain\u2019s right half, for example, a person might eat only what\u2019s on the right side of the plate because they\u2019re unaware of the other half. The person may see only the right half of a photo and ignore a person on their left side.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, though, such stroke victims can emotionally react to the entire photo or scene. Their brains seem to be taking it all in, but these people are consciously aware of only half the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a quarter of all stroke victims develop a bizarre disorder\u2014they lose conscious awareness of half of all that their eyes perceive. After a stroke in the brain\u2019s right half, for example, a person might eat only what\u2019s on the right side of the plate because they\u2019re unaware of the other half. The person [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167839","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}