Brett Surbey is a corporate paralegal and freelance writer based out of Alberta, Canada. His work has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Canadian Mortgage Trends, Industry West Magazine, and various ...

Visual stimuli in the real world are often highly predictable on the basis of spatial context, transition probabilities and prior information from previous glances. Normative Bayesian models dictate ...

Modifying patients’ expectations by exposing them to expectation violation situations (thus maximizing the difference between the expected and the actual situational outcome) is proposed to be a ...

Successful prospective memory is necessarily driven by an expectation that encoded information will be relevant in the future, leading to its preferential placement in memory storage. Like expectation ...

There’s pessimism. There’s optimism. Then there’s another, lesser explored but deeply significant state — expectation. That feeling of knowing, or believing we know, what’s going to happen. And while ...