Déjà vu, all over again.
How your brain remembers the future
By NewScientist
IT’S like remembering the future. Our brain generates predictions of likely visual inputs so it can focus on dealing with the unexpected.
Predictable sights trigger less brain activity than unfamiliar stimuli, bolstering the view that the brain is not merely reactive, but generates predictions based on the recent past. "The brain expects to see things and really just wants to confirm it now and again," says Lars Muckli at the University of Glasgow, UK.
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The finding supports the "Bayesian brain" theory, which sees the brain as making predictions about the world which it updates when new information comes in.
