Everyday Clairvoyance: How Your Brain Makes Near-Future Predictions
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 16:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Every day we make thousands of tiny predictions -- when the bus will arrive, who is knocking on the door, whether the dropped glass will break. Now, in a first-of-a-kind study, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are unravelling the process by which the brain makes these everyday prognostications.