{"id":230719,"date":"2026-02-06T17:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/researchers-find-brain-mechanism-behind-flashes-of-intuition"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:06:20","slug":"researchers-find-brain-mechanism-behind-flashes-of-intuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/researchers-find-brain-mechanism-behind-flashes-of-intuition","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Find Brain Mechanism Behind \u2018Flashes of Intuition\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-find-brain-mechanism-behind-flashes-of-intuition2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite decades of research, the mechanisms behind fast flashes of insight that change how a person perceives their world, termed \u201cone-shot learning,\u201d have remained unknown. A mysterious type of one-shot learning is perceptual learning, in which seeing something once dramatically alters our ability to recognize it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite decades of research, the mechanisms behind fast flashes of insight that change how a person perceives their world, termed \u201cone-shot learning,\u201d have remained unknown. A mysterious type of one-shot learning is perceptual learning, in which seeing something once dramatically alters our ability to recognize it again.<\/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-230719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230719","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=230719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}