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A boxer’s brain anticipates how his opponent will act.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A study authored by neuroscientists from the Ernst Str\u00fcngmann Institute of the Max Planck Society, Goethe University Frankfurt, the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, and New York University, explains how the human brain predicts the timing of future events: The brain continuously estimates how likely something is to happen within the next three seconds and uses this estimate to prepare fast and accurate reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humans respond to environments that change at many different speeds. A video game player, for example, reacts to on-screen events unfolding within hundreds of milliseconds or over several seconds. A boxer anticipates an opponent’s moves \u2013 even when their timing differs from that of previous opponents. In each case, the brain predicts when events occur, prepares for what comes next and flexibly adapts to the demands of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publikation:<\/strong> Matthias Grabenhorst, David Poeppel, Georgios Michalareas: The anticipation of imminent events is time-scale invariant<\/strong>. PNAS (2026) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2518982123<\/a>

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