A study of time-resolved EEG data from 32 people finds that neural representations of an object in motion are activated before visual sensory information of the object arrives in the brain, suggesting that the brain may compensate for the lag time between real-time events and visual sensory processing by using predictive neural mechanisms.
Article #19-17777: "Predictions drive neural representations of visual events ahead of incoming sensory information," by Tessel Blom, Daniel Feuerriegel, Philippa Johnson, Stefan Bode, and Hinze Hogendoorn.
MEDIA CONTACT: Tessel Blom, University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; e-mail: tblom@student.unimelb.edu.au
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences