If you’re the kind of person who can’t help finishing other peoples’ sentences for them, don’t worry; you can blame it on evolution. One of the features that makes the brain so remarkable is its ability to anticipate patterns and automatically fill in missing pieces.
In the study, the team recorded neural activity while birds listened to songs in which a syllable had been removed and replaced with noise. What they discovered was startling: the birds’ brains responded as if the missing syllable were still present.
https://as.virginia.edu/news/birdsong-study-offers-new-insight-power-non-artificial-intelligence
