Hedging your bets: How the brain makes decisions based on related information

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 13:00 in Psychology & Sociology

When making decisions based on multiple, interdependent factors, we choose based on how these factors correlate with each other, and not based on an ad hoc rule of thumb or through trial and error as was previously thought, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust.

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