The Importance of Predicting Sound

The brain preactivates the synaptic weights of certain sounds that it's expecting to hear. If sensory input then indeed matches those weights, then the process and essentially just unfold much faster than if they don't miss much. In cases where you can't well predict it, there is a longer period of time before processing begins again. And on the flip side, I split those fingers up as a function of how certain the listener can be about what this word that's being said,.