Hedging your bets: How the brain makes decisions about related bits of information

Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 04:30 in Psychology & Sociology

(Medical Xpress) -- When making decisions based on multiple interdependent factors—such as what combination of stocks and bonds to invest in—humans look at how the factors correlate with each other, according to a new study by researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and University College London.

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