{"id":183661,"date":"2024-02-26T11:49:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/whats-in-a-name-actors-suppress-their-sense-of-self-when-playing-new-character"},"modified":"2024-02-26T11:49:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:49:44","slug":"whats-in-a-name-actors-suppress-their-sense-of-self-when-playing-new-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/whats-in-a-name-actors-suppress-their-sense-of-self-when-playing-new-character","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s in a Name? Actors Suppress Their Sense of Self When Playing New Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whats-in-a-name-actors-suppress-their-sense-of-self-when-playing-new-character.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: When actors hear their own names during a performance, their response is suppressed by activity in the left anterior prefrontal cortex, a brain area associated with self-awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Source: UCL<\/p>\n<p>Actors may suppress their core sense of self when acting, as they immerse themselves in a new role, finds a new study by UCL researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: When actors hear their own names during a performance, their response is suppressed by activity in the left anterior prefrontal cortex, a brain area associated with self-awareness. Source: UCL Actors may suppress their core sense of self when acting, as they immerse themselves in a new role, finds a new study by UCL researchers.<\/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-183661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183661","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=183661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}