{"id":229840,"date":"2026-01-26T21:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/scientists-identify-brain-waves-that-define-the-limits-of-you"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:02:40","slug":"scientists-identify-brain-waves-that-define-the-limits-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/scientists-identify-brain-waves-that-define-the-limits-of-you","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Identify Brain Waves That Define The Limits of \u2018You\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-identify-brain-waves-that-define-the-limits-of-you.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At what point do \u201cyou\u201d end and the outside world begins?<\/p>\n<p>It might feel like a weird question with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/human-skin-can-taste-things-and-scientists-just-figured-out-why\">an obvious answer<\/a>, but your brain has to work surprisingly hard to judge that boundary. Now, scientists have linked a specific set of brain waves in a certain part of the brain to a sense of body ownership.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of new experiments, researchers from Sweden and France put 106 participants through what\u2019s called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-classic-fake-hand-illusion-that-tricks-the-brain-could-be-used-to-treat-ocd\">rubber hand illusion<\/a>, monitoring and stimulating their brain activity to see what effect it had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At what point do \u201cyou\u201d end and the outside world begins? It might feel like a weird question with an obvious answer, but your brain has to work surprisingly hard to judge that boundary. Now, scientists have linked a specific set of brain waves in a certain part of the brain to a sense of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229840","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}