Can your brain predict the future?

• April 24, 2024

"You did not know, but I could see or imagine what would happen." Does this phrase sound familiar? Many call it instinct or sixth sense, other chance; However, according to a study published by the Science portal, the future or anticipating some events is only the product of a neuronal process.

Done by the expert Toshiyuki Hirabayashi, who is a professor of Physiology of the School of Medicine of the University of Tokyo , the research revealed that representations of complex brain functions begin early and play a more important role than previously believed.

The brain remembers the patterns and objects we observe by developing neural representations that work together with them. Because of this, he perceives and recognizes the external world through internal images.

How a process similar to memory, actions, objects and experiences are accumulated generating a scenario at the right time. Therefore, sometimes we can "predict the future", although in reality it is a neuronal process that orders, hierarchizes and constructs a probable event through our memories.

The study analyzed nerve cells in the cortical areas TE and 36 of the brain. As a result, it was discovered that these showed peer associations that originated a "forward feeding hierarchy." The representations of the observed objects commonly generate a visual stimulus which allows us to feel that what is going to happen we already knew.

As a déjà vu, which is the sensation of having lived or experienced beforehand the situation that you are living in that moment; however, all this goes on in our mind. The brain has the capacity, through the observed and felt, to build new internal scenarios that are projected to the outside later.

Video Medicine: How your brain predictions interfere with what you see | Georg Keller | TEDxBasel (April 2024).