Study explores brain activity in primates and humans when presented with a choice between one option that maximizes information and another which prioritizes reward during decision making.
Striosomes, a collection of neurons in the brain's striatum, help with decision-making that requires the evaluation of risks and benefits.
When choosing between high-value items, people's decisions tend to be faster and more accurate.
Cannabis use leads to cognitive impairments that extend beyond the period of intoxication.
A new computational model found decisions people are most likely to feel right about are a result of the attentional effort to consciously weigh up different options.
When presented with a moral decision in their native language by people with a foreign accent, people tend to make more rational decisions.
Researchers say the COVID pandemic has had an impact on people's cognitive abilities and risk perception.
The motivation to invest in social interactions is closely linked to the reward system via the activation of dopaminergic neurons.
Persistency allows value signals to be most efficiently coded across the brain, specifically in the retrosplenial cortex.
A new study reveals the complex architecture of a decision-making circuit in the brains of C. elegans that prompts them to forage for food or stop once a source has been found.
Study reveals how the brain utilizes forward-thinking when we try to influence others or gain social control.
A new study reports human brain size decreased in size approximately 3,000 years ago, and the brain shrinkage parallels the expansion of collective intelligence in human societies.
