How your brain detects patterns in the everyday: without conscious thought

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03116-8

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  1. The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds a study of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted in their brain tissue for medical reasons.

    The study shows that neurons in key brain regions combine information on what occurs and when, allowing the brain to pick out the patterns in events as they unfold over time. That helps the brain to predict coming events, the authors say.

  2. You know it is correct if you played chess seriously for a while. After a while you start to see patterns without thinking a lot about it, even though it is not the same you across before