Jessica Utts

Predicting the unpredictable: critical analysis and practical implications of predictive anticipatory activity.

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2014 Julia Mossbridge, Patrizio Tressoldi, Jessica Utts et al.

A recent meta-analysis of experiments from seven independent laboratories (n = 26) indicates that the human body can apparently detect randomly delivered stimuli occurring 1-10 s in the future (Mossbridge etal., 2012). The key observation in these studies is that human physiology appears to be able to distinguish between unpredictable dichotomous future stimuli, such as emotional vs. neutral...