Lessons About the Brain with Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Behavioral Design Podcast
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How Your Brain Predicts a Snake
Every time you indulge yourself in certain types of media, you're basically training your brain to react in a particular way. Your brain is based on that rustling sound and it predicts that it's a snake. So the first thing it does is it prepares you to run. It raises your heart rite. And as a consequence of that, it preparing you to see a snake. But let's say there is no snak, right? Let's say it's just leaves. There's an error of prediction there. What happens when there's no snake? Well, one of two things can happen. You learned that there is no snake, and so thats that learning will actually change how you
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