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How do our brains tell us what went wrong?

October 6, 2023 by

A team of neuroscientists has now identified a class of neurons--what it calls 'prediction-error neurons'--that are not responsive to sounds in general, but only respond when sounds violate expectations, thereby sending a message that a mistake has been made.  

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