Medical Xpress October 30, 2024
Your brain not only processes what you see but continuously makes predictions based on your experiences. This process may be less finetuned in people with autism.
When someone throws a ball at you, you almost immediately know to catch it—even before you consciously realize it. In the past, people thought that in such a situation, the brain functioned like a camera: an image of the flying ball enters through your eyes and is then processed by your brain. The brain then programs an appropriate action to react to it. But doesn’t that process take too long? Would you still be able to catch the ball in time?
Researchers Christian Keysers, Giorgia Silani, and Valeria Gazzola show that this process in...
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