Scientists discover the mechanism behind telepathy April 26, 2016 Source: Chinese Journal of Science The study found that the human brain seems to rewrite history, so that the choices people make after an incident seem to precede the event. In other words, people add "loops" to the mental timeline to make themselves feel predictable of what actually happened. Related results were published in the journal Psychological Science. Adam Bear and Paul Bloom from Yale University in the United States conducted some simple tests on volunteers. In one trial, subjects observed white circles and quietly guessed which turned red. Once a circle changes color, they have to report whether they predict correctly. The expected accuracy rate is 20%, but in many trials, the accuracy reported by the subjects was much higher than this. This shows that volunteers either have telepathic abilities or unknowingly play a psychological trick on themselves. The design of this study helped explain what is actually happening. The researchers set a different delay between the appearance of a white circle and one of them turning red, ranging from 50 milliseconds to 1 second. When the delay is the shortest, participants report the highest accuracy rate – more than 30%. In fact, the appearance of the red circle affects the decision that is still in progress. The mechanism behind this behavior is not clear. Researchers say that people may correctly perceive the order in which events occur—a circle has changed color before actually making predictions, but then people subconsciously replace the order in memory, so it seems to be predicted first. This sudden change may be driven by the desire to feel that life is controlled. Another possibility is that people are indeed mistakenly aware of the sequence of events due to the inherent limitations of perceptual processing. In other words, the human brain is not trying to deceive people into believing that they are in control. It's just trying to process a sequence of fast-moving events in the right order. Ningxia Eppen Biotec CO.,LTD , https://www.nxeppen.com
Scientists discover the mechanism behind telepathy