{"id":237,"date":"2025-02-11T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/the-big-idea-how-do-our-brains-know-whats-real-psychology-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T06:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:56:11","slug":"the-big-idea-how-do-our-brains-know-whats-real-psychology-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/the-big-idea-how-do-our-brains-know-whats-real-psychology-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Idea: how do our brains know what\u2019s real? | Psychology | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In \u201cgenerative adversarial\u201d models, two elements combine to learn about some aspect of the world: the \u201cgenerative\u201d bit aims to predict it as precisely as possible; the \u201cadversary\u201d does its best to decide whether what it is looking at is the real world or the output of the generative model. The generative model constantly ups its game to masquerade as the real McCoy; the adversary keeps honing its connoisseurship to distinguish the authentic from the fake. Something similar happens in the brain. The \u201cadversary\u201d in the human brain, charged with reality checking, keeps watch from our huge frontal lobes: Area 10, in particular, at the tip of the frontal cortex, becomes active in tasks requiring us to decide whether items were seen or imagined. It is smaller and less active in people with psychosis than in healthy people, especially so in people with psychosis who hallucinate.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/feb\/10\/the-big-idea-how-do-our-brains-know-whats-real\">www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/feb\/10\/the-big-idea-how-do-our-brains-know-whats-real<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cgenerative adversarial\u201d models, two elements combine to learn about some aspect of the world: the \u201cgenerative\u201d bit aims to predict it as precisely as possible; the \u201cadversary\u201d does its best to decide whether what it is looking at is the real world or the output of the generative model. The generative model constantly ups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}