Why You Can’t Tickle Yourself
Try tickling your own ribs—nothing happens. Why does the exact same physical touch feel completely different depending on whose hand is moving?
perception
5 published articles
How to Test a Brain Explanation That Sounds Like It Explains Everything
Predictive processing offers a grand view of the brain, but how do we tell genuine discoveries from post-hoc storytelling? A 4-question toolkit for evaluating neuroscience claims.
If Your Brain Predicts What You See, Why Isn’t Vision a Hallucination?
Walk into a dim bedroom at night and a coat hanging over a chair can, for one unpleasant second, look remarkably like a person. If your brain relies on top-down predictions to construct perception, what keeps vision anchored to physical reality?
Can Expectation Change Taste?
Pour the exact same wine into two glasses, tell a drinker that one costs eight dollars and the other costs eighty, and they will almost certainly prefer the expensive one. Does expectation actually change what you taste, or only how you think about and report it?
Your Brain Never Sees the World Directly
Your brain never sees the world directly—it reconstructs it from sensory clues. Discover how prediction, expectation, and surprise may shape the reality you experience.
