If you read popular science books about the brain, you might have encountered a new “grand theory” called predictive processing. If you haven’t yet, you will. Over the last two decades, it has gone ...

In my work as a brand strategist revealing the intersection of psychology and marketing, I have found that the most effective marketers have an intuitive grasp that science is now beginning to prove.

A controversial theory suggests that perception, motor control, memory and other brain functions all depend on comparisons between ongoing actual experiences and the brain’s modeled expectations. Last ...