{"id":210778,"date":"2025-04-07T05:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-clues-to-consciousness-scientists-discover-the-brains-hidden-gatekeeper"},"modified":"2025-04-07T05:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:20:26","slug":"new-clues-to-consciousness-scientists-discover-the-brains-hidden-gatekeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-clues-to-consciousness-scientists-discover-the-brains-hidden-gatekeeper","title":{"rendered":"New Clues to Consciousness: Scientists Discover the Brain\u2019s Hidden Gatekeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-clues-to-consciousness-scientists-discover-the-brains-hidden-gatekeeper2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thalamic regions drive conscious perception by syncing with the prefrontal cortex, acting as a gateway to awareness. Using direct intracranial brain recordings in humans, a new study has identified the thalamus, a small, deeply situated brain structure, as a key player in conscious perception. Th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thalamic regions drive conscious perception by syncing with the prefrontal cortex, acting as a gateway to awareness. Using direct intracranial brain recordings in humans, a new study has identified the thalamus, a small, deeply situated brain structure, as a key player in conscious perception. Th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210778","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}