{"id":70177,"date":"2013-11-18T09:17:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T14:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=70177"},"modified":"2018-08-03T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:07:15","slug":"what-i-mean-when-i-say-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/18\/what-i-mean-when-i-say-space\/","title":{"rendered":"What I mean when I say: &#8216;Space,&#8217; with Jason Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Bates-Fac12-Castro_0036H.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-68871\" alt=\"Jason Castro, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Bates-Fac12-Castro_0036H-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Bates-Fac12-Castro_0036H-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Bates-Fac12-Castro_0036H-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Bates-Fac12-Castro_0036H.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When Jason Castro, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience, says \u201cspace,\u201d he often means:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Something quite abstract and conceptual that needn\u2019t refer to the familiar three dimensions of the physical world. A space could contain all possible faces, categories of scent or musical pitches. Your brain creates organized spaces for such things &#8212; mapping impossibly abstract quantities onto a very physical network of cells.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Academic disciplines often assign particular and surprising meanings to common words. The series \u201cWhat I Mean When I Say\u201d explores those meanings.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does &#8220;space&#8221; mean to a neuroscientist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":68871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[9758,193,10116],"class_list":["post-70177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-batesnews","tag-jason-castro","tag-neuroscience","tag-what-i-mean-when-i-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70177"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117532,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70177\/revisions\/117532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}