#Predictivecoding

A groundbreaking study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience has unveiled that human perception is powerfully shaped by expectation, with our brains often “seeing” what we anticipate rather than what our eyes actually detect. This discovery, published in the journal Cell Reports, sheds new light on how daily life feels seamless and highlights surprising mechanisms within our neural circuits—insights that carry implications for health, technology, and Thai society alike (Earth.com).

A groundbreaking study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience shows that our brains often “see” what we expect to see, not just what our eyes detect. Published in Cell Reports, the research reveals the brain’s powerful use of expectation to make daily life feel seamless. For Thai readers, the findings offer new angles on health, education, technology, and everyday interaction in crowded, fast-paced environments.

In everyday scenes, such as watching someone prepare breakfast, the brain’s action observation network helps predict what happens next. The researchers contrasted two types of scenes: orderly sequences and scrambled ones. Using millisecond-precise brain recordings, they found that when actions flowed as expected, higher-level motor areas sent signals to the visual cortex to ease sensory processing. The brain effectively lightened the eye’s workload by relying on memory and learned sequences.