Brain naturally follows scientific method? Less effort to register 'predictable' images

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 23:07 in Biology & Nature

It turns out that there is a striking similarity between how the human brain determines what is going on in the outside world and the job of scientists. Good science involves formulating a hypothesis and testing whether this hypothesis is compatible with the scientist's observations. Researchers have now shown that this is what the brain does as well. A study shows that it takes less effort for the brain to register predictable as compared to unpredictable images.

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