Results from a new study implicate the ventromedial thalamus in cost-benefit decision making. Read More
Study implicated hippocampal neurons in our ability to make educated guesses. Read More
Study identifies neurons in command of guiding adaptive behaviors. Read More
Neuroimaging and computational neuroscience studies reveal different ways and brain areas implicated in decision making. Read More
Neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex respond more to loss than to gain. Avoidance of risk-taking is affected by an area of the hippocampus that is associated with memory and anxiety. The findings suggest a close relationship between memory processing and decision making when risk is present, especially in stressful situations. The fresh insights might help guide new psychiatric therapies for disorders marked by excessive avoidance, such as anxiety, and depression, and also mania and addiction, where excessive risk-taking is a common feature. Read More
People distort probability to compensate for perceptual and cognitive limitations. Read More
Synchronized activity between the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and temporoparietal junction improves learning and decision-making when people try to avoid harming others. Read More
Neuroimaging study reveals social learning is represented in the anterior cingulate cortex, while direct learning is represented in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. The two areas both interact with the striatum, which helps compute both reward prediction error and social prediction error. Read More
Animals slowly shift their likelihood of detecting stimulus changes over ten minutes. Researchers found the activity of neural populations from the V4 visual area and prefrontal cortex slowly drifted together with the behavioral fluctuations. The slow drift acts as an impulsivity signal. Read More
Time feels longer when experiencing it, and the amount of reward is devalued when it is delayed, a new study on impatience in humans reveals. Read More
When it comes to decision making, researchers discovered toddlers experience and deal with uncertainty in the same way as older children and adults. Read More
The activity of a network of dopamine neurons reflects both the innate preferences for smell and taste, as well as the physiological state of fruit flies. Read More
