{"id":237802,"date":"2026-05-27T03:21:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/are-your-choices-really-yours-new-brain-study-raises-big-questions"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:21:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:21:45","slug":"are-your-choices-really-yours-new-brain-study-raises-big-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/are-your-choices-really-yours-new-brain-study-raises-big-questions","title":{"rendered":"Are Your Choices Really Yours? New Brain Study Raises Big Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-your-choices-really-yours-new-brain-study-raises-big-questions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study reveals that the brain may handle voluntary and forced decisions using remarkably similar neural mechanisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reveals that the brain may handle voluntary and forced decisions using remarkably similar neural mechanisms.<\/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-237802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237802","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=237802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}