{"id":168813,"date":"2023-08-01T06:26:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T11:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/we-may-have-found-the-part-of-the-brain-where-conscious-experience-lives"},"modified":"2023-08-01T06:26:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T11:26:39","slug":"we-may-have-found-the-part-of-the-brain-where-conscious-experience-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/we-may-have-found-the-part-of-the-brain-where-conscious-experience-lives","title":{"rendered":"We May Have Found The Part of The Brain Where Conscious Experience Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-may-have-found-the-part-of-the-brain-where-conscious-experience-lives3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research sheds light on a tricky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/consciousness\">idea of consciousness<\/a>: There\u2019s a difference between what the brain takes in and what we\u2019re consciously aware of taking in.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists now think they\u2019ve pinpointed the brain region where that conscious awareness is managed.<\/p>\n<p>The team, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), in the US, found sustained brain activity in the occipitotemporal area of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Visual_cortex\">visual cortex<\/a> in the back of the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research sheds light on a tricky idea of consciousness: There\u2019s a difference between what the brain takes in and what we\u2019re consciously aware of taking in. Scientists now think they\u2019ve pinpointed the brain region where that conscious awareness is managed. The team, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and the University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168813","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}