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Can Our Bodies Predict The Future?
by Tia Ghose, LiveScience
In5D.com
People’s bodies know a big event is coming just before it happens, at least according to a new study.
If true, the research, published in the journal Frontiers of Perception, suggests something fundamental about the laws of nature has yet to be discovered.
“The claim is that events can be predicted without any cues,” said Julia Mossbridge, a Northwestern University neuroscientist who co-authored the study. “This evidence suggests the effect is real but small. So the question is: How does it work?”
Other scientists are skeptical of this interpretation, however. They suggest some bias in which studies get published could play a role in seeing an effect where there is none.
Real effect?
Many studies have shown that physical responses including heart rate, pupil dilation and brain activity change between one and 10 seconds before people see a scary image (like a slithering snake). In most of these experiments, frightening pictures were randomly interspersed with more-neutral ones, so that in theory participants didn’t have any clues about which photo would pop up next. But because the finding seemed so unnatural, those studies were understandably met with skepticism.
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2015/09/can-our-bodies-predict-future.html
