Everyday 'clairvoyance:' How your brain makes near-future predictions
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 22:30
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 one of the first studies of its kind, researchers are beginning to unravel the process by which the brain makes these everyday prognostications.