11-21-2015, 08:21 AM
(11-21-2015, 08:19 AM)Segolia Wrote:Thanks floofy.(11-21-2015, 04:36 AM)Marxon Wrote: How about recognize it before you finish your sentence, because you already know the answer.
It makes no sense. Impossible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_in_language_comprehension
Your brain is predisposed to linguistic processing and you are constantly processing people's movements, intonation, speech patterns ( "prosody" etc.) all the time. Research shows that there is a strong correlation between speech production and speech processing, to the point that based on things like syntax you can probabilistically determine what people are going to say next with a surprising degree of accuracy
See: http://web.stanford.edu/~bresnan/86.1.bresnan.pdf
Or to put it another way - your brain is very good at language processing to the point where you can intuitively understand and predict what people are going to say with a surprising degree of accuracy based on things like their sentence structure, tone of voice, facial expressions etc.
It isn't literal precognition though.