Anticipatory thinking is the act of identifying problems that may arise in future, and preparing for them order to mitigate risk (or opportunity for) positive or negative impacts occurring. In this paper, we argue a critical underlying process anticipatory cognitive priming, where one's current thoughts influence next without conscious intention. We make argument terms two aspects human cogniti...

INTRODUCTION Anticipatory guidance is an important part of well-child care, yet little is known about the way family physicians provide this guidance. This study describes the methods that family physicians use to provide anticipatory guidance during well-child visits. METHODS A questionnaire was mailed to 1000 family physicians. Respondents rated 6 anticipatory guidance methods on frequency ...

A classic paradigm to study anticipatory pursuit consists in training monkeys to look at a target that appears in the center of a visual display, disappears during a short "gap" period, then reappears and immediately starts to move. To determine the role of prior directional information on anticipatory pursuit eye movements, we trained rhesus monkeys to associate the color of a centrally presen...

OBJECTIVE In DSM-5, pain-related fear during anticipation of vaginal penetration is a diagnostic criterion of Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder (GPPPD). We aimed to investigate subjective and brain responses during anticipatory fear and subsequent induction of vestibular pain in women with GPPPD. METHODS Women with GPPPD (n = 18) and age-matched healthy controls (HC) (n = 15) underwent ...

Many theorists emphasize the role of an “internal model of the world” in directing intelligent behavior. Internal models predict the evolution of the environment by imitating its causal flow. They compute prediction signals and use these prediction signals to form novel associative chains. Formation of such predictive chains may contribute to reasoning and planning. Animals seem to learn and us...

Anticipatory deployment of attention may operate through networks of brain areas that modulate the representations of to-be-attended items in advance of their occurrence through top-down control. Luks and Simpson (2004) (Luks, T.L., Simpson, G.V., 2004. Preparatory deployment of attention to motion activates higher order motion-processing brain regions. NeuroImage 22, 1515-1522) found activatio...

Information systems are anticipatory systems providing knowledge of the real world. If e-science is to operate reactively across the Grid it needs to be integrable with other information systems and e-commerce. Theory suggests that four strong-anticipatory levels of computational types are sufficient to provide ultimate systemic closure with a single strong anticipation. Between the four levels...

Anticipatory physiological regulation is an adaptive strategy that enables animals to respond faster to physiologic and metabolic challenges. The cephalic phase responses are anticipatory responses that prepare animals to digest, absorb, and metabolize nutrients. They enable the sensory aspects of the food to interact with the metabolic state of the animal to influence feeding behavior. The ant...

Mice fed a single daily meal at intervals within the circadian range exhibit food anticipatory activity. Previous investigations strongly suggest that this behaviour is regulated by a circadian pacemaker entrained to the timing of fasting/refeeding. The neural correlate(s) of this pacemaker, the food entrainable oscillator (FEO), whether found in a neural network or a single locus, remain unkno...