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  "id": 793615,
  "title": "Brain circuit keeps tabs on what just happened to aid judgment of what's happening now",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/brain-circuit-keeps-tabs-on-what-just-happened-to-aid-judgment-of",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-13T18:00:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-brain-circuit-tabs-aid-judgment.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A brain must constantly cope with the highly variable, fast-paced nature of the world when trying to judge what's going on around it. On the one hand, it has to be open to whatever new sensory information may come its way, but on the other hand, just to keep up, it has to try to leverage prior experience to make predictions about what seems to be happening. In a new study in Science, MIT…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}