{"id":198793,"date":"2024-11-04T17:23:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T23:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/your-brain-is-constantly-working-to-predict-whats-happens-next"},"modified":"2024-11-04T17:23:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T23:23:40","slug":"your-brain-is-constantly-working-to-predict-whats-happens-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/your-brain-is-constantly-working-to-predict-whats-happens-next","title":{"rendered":"Your brain is constantly working to \u201cpredict\u201d what\u2019s happens next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-brain-is-constantly-working-to-predict-whats-happens-next.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever noticed how you catch a falling glass before it even registers that it\u2019s slipping? That\u2019s because your brain is constantly making predictions, keeping you one step ahead of reality.<\/p>\n<p>As difficult as it may be to believe, our minds don\u2019t just process what\u2019s happening \u2014 they anticipate what\u2019s about to happen next.<\/p>\n<p>This intriguing concept comes from researchers Christian Keysers and Valeria Gazzola of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nin.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience<\/a>, along with Giorgia Silani from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Vienna<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever noticed how you catch a falling glass before it even registers that it\u2019s slipping? That\u2019s because your brain is constantly making predictions, keeping you one step ahead of reality. As difficult as it may be to believe, our minds don\u2019t just process what\u2019s happening \u2014 they anticipate what\u2019s about to happen next. This intriguing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}