We’ve known for some time that our expectations can profoundly influence the experience of our world, even our physiology. 1 This, after all, is what the placebo effect is all about. But we hadn’t ...

“The beauty of the predictive processing framework [is] that it has a really large—sometimes critics might say too large—capacity to explain a lot of different phenomena in many different systems,” ...

If you read popular science books about the brain, you might have encountered a new “grand theory” called predictive processing. If you haven’t yet, you will. Over the last two decades, it has gone ...