The fact that sometimes we think we emit the same “wavelength” with another person because our brain is designed to continuously run ahead

Your Brain Is a ‘Prediction Machine’: It Predicts What the Other Person Is Going to Say

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2023-03-26 15:30:07

The fact that sometimes we think we emit the same “wavelength” with another person because our brain is designed to continuously run ahead and “predict ” what the person we are talking to is going to say. This is the conclusion of a new American study.

According to experts, the successful prediction of words uttered by the other person occurs due to the synchronization of brain patterns that “anticipate” speech.

The study published in the «Journal of Neuroscience» brings to light new information about the brain processes that take place during communication and are related to the processing of spoken language.

The scientists found that our brain is constantly trying to predict what the person we are speaking to is going to say to us, in order to better understand and promote discussion.

Until now scientists believed that our brain processes the stimuli received from the environment from the “bottom-up”, that is, when we hear someone speak, the auditory cortex of the brain processes the sound first and then activates other areas that are responsible for speech comprehension.

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