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How your brain remembers the future

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inevaexisted wrote: post #2

I'd be interested to see the results of this experiment on people with autism. As I understand their brains process more of the visual stimulus than normal people do.

One thing that comes to mind is that people with autism tend to react negatively to changes of plans, or disruptions of routine. (That may be a longer time-frame effect than we're talking about here, though, and not related.)

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Alex3917 wrote: post #7
eagleal wrote: post #5

Some relevant/related papers: # Original paper : Alink, Arjen, Caspar M Schwiedrzik, Axel Kohler, Wolf Singer, and Lars Muckli. Stimulus predictability reduces responses in primary visual cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience: The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience 30, no. 8 (February 24, 2010): 2960-2966. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181593 . # A relevant paper : Alink, A., W. Singer, and L. Muck…

You should check out the papers by Renee Baillargeon on testing infants' knowledge of the physical world, they are pretty cool.

Nice, thanks. During the previous summer I tried to study how my very young cousin (1y at the time) perceived the physical world, against the movies ones (yeh, he watched movies :).
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