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Decision-Making Process - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

... choice alternatives (for review, see Kennerley and Walton, 2011). For instance, a recent study in NHPs showed that neurons in the OFC encode the subjective ...

Free Will and Neuroscience: From Explaining Freedom Away to ...

In this regard, the authors claim: “we found that the outcome of a decision can be encoded in brain activity of prefrontal and parietal cortex up to 10 s before ...

UCLA Brain Research Institute (BRI)

The BRI educates and inspires K-12 students that are traditionally underserved to pursue higher education and a career in neuroscience.

When Does the Brain Reach Maturity? It's Later than You Think

The development of the pre-frontal cortex of the frontal lobe allows us to process the pros and cons of a decision before it is made. “It lets us to do things ...

Scientists Say Child's Play Helps Build A Better Brain - NPR

So play, he adds, is what prepares a young brain for life, love and even schoolwork. But to produce this sort of brain development, children ...

How Biology Prepares Us for Love and Connection

The reward system is also activated when people make anonymous charitable donations, according to another study. This suggests that human brains ...

The Case of Brain Science and Guided Play: A Developing Story

Brain science research in animals has left clues along a path that may begin to reveal play's human biological underpinnings, but more research is needed to ...

New research to understand how the brain handles optical illusions ...

When everything in our environment is as expected, the brain stops paying attention. This not only helps us conserve energy, the theory goes, it ...

Predicting free choices for abstract intentions - PNAS

Previous studies (2, 4) have found early choice-predictive information in areas that overlap with the so-called “default mode” network (DMN) (15 ...

Neuroscience of free will - Wikipedia

As medical and scientific technology has advanced, neuroscientists have become able to study the brains of living humans, allowing them to observe the brain's ...

Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - OECD

But they also create new policy issues as countries face challenges to reap the benefits of digitalisation in education while minimising its risks. Learn ...

Learning rewires the brain - Science News Explores

Brain cells actually change shape as we learn. It's one way we cement new knowledge. And much of the action happens as we sleep.

Assessment and the Learning Brain - NAIS

Active retrieval is also crucial as students prepare for assessments. Too often, when we ask students to reflect on their study strategies, they say they simply ...

Study shows we consciously exert control over individual neurons

Every day our brains are flooded by stimulation — sounds, sights and smells. At the same time, we are constantly engaged in an inner ...

Brain Mechanism Found to Determine Which Memories Last

Led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the new study revolves around brain cells called neurons that “fire”—bring about ...

Computed Tomography (CT or CAT) Scan of the Brain

How do I prepare for a CT scan of the brain? If you are having computed tomography angiography (CTA) , you will be given specific instructions when you make ...

Brain development: pre-teens and teenagers

Because the prefrontal cortex is still developing, pre-teens and teenagers might rely on a part of the brain called the amygdala to make ...

Assessment, Choice, and the Learning Brain - Edutopia

... in carefully spaced intervals, can produce long-lasting learning. Research also shows that providing students with choice enhances attention and engagement ...

How the Brain Learns to Read - Keys to Literacy

Because of something called brain plasticity, during brain development a range of brain circuits can adapt for new uses. When we learn a new ...

All About Your Brain and Nervous System (for Teens) - Kids Health

What Does the Brain Do? ... The brain controls what you think and feel, how you learn and remember, and the way you move and talk. But it also controls things you ...