How the brain decides

How Does the Brain Make Decisions? | Harvard Medical School

Mouse study provides insights into communication between neurons during decision-making · Research reveals how neurons in the brain are wired to ...

How the brain decides what we perceive - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Brain Perception is highly selective; the brain constantly decides what information is important enough to reach our consciousness.

How the brain decides, redirects, remembers

Two labs at Boston Children's Hospital explore how our brains help us navigate decisions and fast-changing situations.

How the brain decides to make an effort - Emory News Center

A region of the human brain known as the ventral striatum kicks in during decision-making to weigh the costs versus the benefits of making a physical effort.

How the Brain Decides What to Remember - WIRED

The brain tags experiences worth remembering by repeatedly sending out sudden and powerful high-frequency brain waves.

Stanford researchers learn how the brain decides what to learn

A part of the brain called the paraventricular thalamus, or PVT, serves as a kind of gatekeeper, making sure that the brain identifies and tracks the most ...

Decisions and Desire - Harvard Business Review

The primitive, emotional parts of our brains have a powerful influence on the choices we make. Now, neuroscientists are mapping the risk and reward systems ...

An Algorithmic Model of Decision Making in the Human Brain - PMC

Our study models the interactions between the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex by providing an algorithmic view.

How the brain helps us make good decisions — and bad ones

Distinct circuits connecting to different brain regions are involved in making decisions and determining which choices to store in memory, ...

How the Brain Decides - Dana Foundation

This six-month, virtual series unpacked some of the most pressing and occasionally contentious topics in contemporary neuroscience. These discussions were ...

How the brain decides what we see - PMC - PubMed Central

At present most commentators assume that what we see is driven entirely by the sensory input. In other words we see what is actually out there. This position is ...

How your brain decides what to think - The Conversation

It's engaged when we are daydreaming, thinking about ourselves or others, recalling memories, or imagining future events.

How the Brain Decides, Thinks and Creates | Columbia

Dr. Shadlen argues that the brain follows simple rules to make both simple and complex decisions. To test this, he studies the brain's parietal cortex, which ...

Watching decision making in the brain | Stanford Report

Stanford researchers observe decision making in the brain – and influence the outcomes. A team of neuroscientists and engineers have developed a ...

Our brains reveal our choices before we're even aware of them: study

A new UNSW study suggests we have less control over our personal choices than we think, and that unconscious brain activity determines our choices well before ...

How The Brain Decides Which Memories To Keep And Which To ...

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that during the day the brain goes through a series of steps in an effort to tag certain memories to be stored ...

Your Brain Chooses What to Let You See | Quanta Magazine

Beneath our awareness, the brain lets certain kinds of stimuli automatically capture our attention by lowering the priority of the rest.

Neuroscientists Identify Brain Mechanism that Drives Focus

In the study, published recently in Neuron, the scientists sought to illuminate the neural mechanism that helps the brain decide whether to ...

How the human brain decides which memories to remember

The research indicates that the human brain gives more importance to memories it cannot easily explain or interpret.

How the Brain Decides - A Dana Discovery Dialogues Series

As we welcome in the New Year, this Dialogues pondered the influences that affect our decision-making. Why do our brains sometimes fall for ...