Every day we make thousands of tiny predictions — when the bus will arrive, who is knocking on the door, whether the dropped glass will break. Now, in one of the first studies of its kind, researchers ...

Over the past few decades, neuroscientists and medical researchers worldwide have been trying to leverage available health records, brain scans and other medical data to uncover biological markers ...

Have you ever walked into a dark room, flipped the light switch—and nothing happened? That jolt of confusion reflects your brain’s predictive model colliding with unexpected input. In that split ...

Are humans born with innate grammatical scaffolding, or does language develop on the basis of use and experience? This is a question that is still debated by the various linguistic schools of thought.

When soccer stars take the field in the FIFA World Cup June 11 through July 19, they’ll be making countless real-time adjustments as they play. And when they do, they’ll also be predicting the future.