Everyday Clairvoyance: How your brain makes near-future predictions | Newsroom | Washington University in St. Louis

Everyday Clairvoyance: How your brain makes near-future predictions | Newsroom | Washington University in St. Louis: “Successful predictions are associated with the subjective experience of a smooth stream of consciousness. But a few times a minute, our predictions come out wrong and then we perceive a break in the stream of consciousness, accompanied by an uptick in activity of primitive parts of the brain involved with the MDS that regulate attention and adaptation to unpredicted changes.”