Home » Psychology news » Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active
Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active
August 4, 2022 by NewsBot
Our brain works a bit like the autocomplete function on your phone -- it is constantly trying to guess the next word when we are listening to a book, reading or conducting a conversation. Contrary to speech recognition computers, our brains are constantly making predictions at different levels, from meaning and grammar to specific speech sounds.