Crayfish Brain May Offer Rare Insight into Human Decision Making
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 12:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Crayfish make surprisingly complex, cost-benefit choices, finds a University of Maryland study -opening up a new line of research to help unravel the cellular brain activity involved in human decisions. It concludes crayfish are a practical way to identify the neural circuitry and chemistry of decision making. No direct way exists to do this in primates.