We’ve known for some time that our expectations can profoundly influence the experience of our world, even our physiology. 1 This, after all, is what the placebo effect is all about. But we hadn’t ...

People don’t passively change their beliefs; they test whether it’s safe to. What looks like repetition may be an attempt to ...

The study of predictive processing has become a cornerstone in perception science, aiming to explain how the brain anticipates and interprets sensory ...

“The beauty of the predictive processing framework [is] that it has a really large—sometimes critics might say too large—capacity to explain a lot of different phenomena in many different systems,” ...