Simple Brain Mechanisms Explain Arbitrary Human Visual Decisions
Sunday, November 9, 2008 - 20:14
in Psychology & Sociology
Scientists report in Nature Neuroscience that a simple decision-making task does not involve the frontal lobes, where many of the higher aspects of human cognition, including self-awareness, are thought to originate. Instead, the regions that decide are the same brain regions that receive stimuli relevant to the decision and control the body's response to it.