Strategy Or Chance? How The Brain Decides
Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 16:20
in Psychology & Sociology
Many of the choices we make are informed by experiences we've had in the past but we know that sometimes it is better to throw all that out and take a risk on something new. Scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus have shown that the brain can temporarily disconnect information about past experience from decision-making circuits, thereby triggering random behavior. read more