{"id":231537,"date":"2026-02-17T18:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/neuroscientist-reveals-how-the-brain-functions-without-a-minds-eye"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:03:59","slug":"neuroscientist-reveals-how-the-brain-functions-without-a-minds-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/neuroscientist-reveals-how-the-brain-functions-without-a-minds-eye","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientist reveals how the brain functions without a mind\u2019s eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscientist-reveals-how-the-brain-functions-without-a-minds-eye.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can you picture an apple in your mind? For millions of people with aphantasia, the answer is no. A recent podcast explores the neuroscience behind this condition and how researchers objectively measure the invisible experience of mental imagery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you picture an apple in your mind? For millions of people with aphantasia, the answer is no. A recent podcast explores the neuroscience behind this condition and how researchers objectively measure the invisible experience of mental imagery.<\/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-231537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231537","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=231537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}