{"id":235225,"date":"2026-04-15T02:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/a-complete-rethinking-of-how-our-brains-use-categories-to-make-sense-of-the-world"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:04:35","slug":"a-complete-rethinking-of-how-our-brains-use-categories-to-make-sense-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/a-complete-rethinking-of-how-our-brains-use-categories-to-make-sense-of-the-world","title":{"rendered":"A complete rethinking of how our brains use categories to make sense of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-complete-rethinking-of-how-our-brains-use-categories-to-make-sense-of-the-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Challenging the classic view, two cognitive scientists argue in a new review that categorization is not a late, specialized stage of sensory processing. Instead, it is a core function operating at every level, anticipating bodily needs and motor plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenging the classic view, two cognitive scientists argue in a new review that categorization is not a late, specialized stage of sensory processing. Instead, it is a core function operating at every level, anticipating bodily needs and motor plans.<\/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-235225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235225","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=235225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}