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.
Researchers examine the neuroscience behind why we make certain decisions when faced with multiple choices.
How do we make decisions during times when we are uncertain? A new study may have clues. Researchers identified a specific set of neurons that prevent the brain from using unreliable information when faced with decision-making.
Salient choice alone can have a powerful range of psychological effects, including the personal empowerment of an individual.
Recurrent neural networks within the human frontal cortex may be responsible for decision making, language, and movement, researchers report.
Brain areas associated with working memory also gauge the quality and uncertainty of memories. Researchers reveal details about the neural mechanisms of working memory that allow us to make decisions based on our certainty of memories.
Study reveals cognitive control can drive cheaters to be honest, and honest people to cheat.
The gaze of a humanoid robot influences the way people react to social decision-making tasks.
People's beliefs about good and evil supernatural agents are influenced by how they view their fellow humans and human behavior.
Heightened states of arousal altered neural circuits in a brain area associated with decision making, resulting in some neurons changing from decision making to internal state monitors.
A new mathematical model evaluates the influence of social learners in group decision-making and how a critical threshold is key to informed choices.
Study highlights the role dopamine receptors play in motivation and decision making.
