Epicenter of brain's predictive ability pinpointed by scientists
Northeastern University
Experts say humans’ reactions are in fact the body adjusting to predictions the brain is making based on the state of our body the last time it was in a similar situation. The unique contribution of our paper is to show that limbic tissue, because of its structure and the way the neurons are organized, is predicting, Barrett said. In the Nature paper, Barrett summarized research on the cellular composition of limbic tissue, which shows that limbic regions of the brain send but do not receive predictions. This means that limbic regions direct processing in the brain. In her paper, Barrett shows that your brain is not wired to be a reactive organ.