Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.

Quanta Science Podcast

New experiments show that the brain distinguishes between perceived and imagined mental images by checking whether they cross a “reality threshold.” Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Who’s Using Who” by The Mini Vandals.

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