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Predictive Technologies: Can Smart Tools Augment the Brain's Predictive Abilities?   Pezzullo, G., D'Ausilio, A., Gaggioli, A.  Frontiers in Neuroscience 10(186) · May 2016    Abstract.  The ability of “looking into the future”—namely, the capacity of anticipating future states of the environment or of the body—represents a fundamental function of human (and animal) brains. A goalkeeper who tries to guess the ball’s direction; a chess player who attempts to anticipate the opponent’s next move; or a man-in-love who tries to calculate what are the chances of her saying...

Via Medgadget Brain networks in two behaviourally-similar vegetative patients (left and middle), but one of whom imagined playing tennis (middle panel), alongside a healthy adult (right panel). Credit: Srivas Chennu People locked into a vegetative state due to disease or injury are a major mystery for medical science. Some may be fully unconscious, while others remain...

Information – Entropy by Oliver Reichenstein Will information technology affect our minds the same way the environment was affected by our analogue technology? Designers hold a key position...

Via Neurogadget Researchers have developed a new way to explore the human brain in virtual reality. The system, called Glass Brain, which is developed by Philip Rosedale, creator of the...