Key points Psychology has focused on how the past causes our present behavior. But the future can cause the present too, via prediction and simulation. The brain constantly makes predictions.

It has been known for nearly 20 years that slow, synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep support the ...

When a person views a photograph of a hairy, looming spider or a slithering snake in a laboratory experiment, scientists usually see markers of increased electrical activity deep in that person’s ...

The future, particularly cognition about the future, has been very much a back-burner issue in psychology for more than a century. The canonical human being, Homo psychologicus, is a prisoner of the ...