News tagged with decision making
Research shows the parts of the brain involved in judging mate potential
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from Ireland's Trinity College and Caltech in the US have found after analyzing brain scans of young volunteers, that two brain regions appear to be involved the decision making ...
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Nov 08, 2012 |
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Front-most part of the cortex involved in making short-term predictions about what will happen next
Researchers at the University of Iowa, together with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology and New York University, have discovered how a part of the brain helps predict future events from ...
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Jun 19, 2012 |
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Deep brain stimulation studies show how brain buys time for tough choices
Take your time. Hold your horses. Sleep on it. When people must decide between arguably equal choices, they need time to deliberate. In the case of people undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease, that ...
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Sep 25, 2011 |
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Hedging your bets: How the brain makes decisions about related bits of information
(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, ...
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Sep 22, 2011 |
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'I don't want to pick!' Preschoolers know when they aren't sure
Children as young as 3 years old know when they are not sure about a decision, and can use that uncertainty to guide decision making, according to new research from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 12, 2013 |
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Deal or no deal: 5 year olds make smart decisions in games of risk
You may have to be over a certain age to be a contestant on "Deal or No Deal", but children as young as five start to maximize their profits - in cookies - when making decisions similar to those on the show, according to ...
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Jan 09, 2013 |
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Decisions based on instinct have surprisingly positive outcomes, researcher finds
Decision-making is an inevitable part of the human experience, and one of the most mysterious. For centuries, scientists have studied how we go about the difficult task of choosing A or B, left or right, North or South—and ...
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Nov 08, 2012 |
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New insight into why haste makes waste
Why do our brains make more mistakes when we act quickly? A new study demonstrates how the brain follows Ben Franklin's famous dictum, "Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."
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Nov 07, 2012 |
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Breakdown of neural networks could help doctors track, better understand spread of Alzheimer's in brain
(Medical Xpress)—Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have taken one of the first detailed looks into how Alzheimer's disease disrupts coordination among several of the brain's networks. The ...
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Sep 18, 2012 |
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Weighing your options? Thinking of less supportive relationships leads to wanting more choice
(Phys.org)—People who view their relationships as secure have less need to consider many options when making choices about purchases, a new University of Michigan study shows.
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Aug 27, 2012 |
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Thinking and choosing in the brain: Researchers study over 300 lesion patients
The frontal lobes are the largest part of the human brain, and thought to be the part that expanded most during human evolution. Damage to the frontal lobes—which are located just behind and above the ...
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Aug 21, 2012 |
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People know when to move on
(Medical Xpress) -- People make decisions all the time. What sandwich to order, whether to walk through that puddle or around it, what school to go to and so on. However, psychologists disagree on how good we are at making ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 30, 2012 |
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Decision-making can and must be learned -- new test measures risk intelligence
(Medical Xpress) -- Tests exist for evaluating personality, intelligence and memory. However, up to now, it was not easily possible to find out how good someone is at making decisions in risky situations.
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Apr 11, 2012 |
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Rats match humans in decision-making that involves combining different sensory cues: study
The next time you set a trap for that rat running around in your basement, here's something to consider: you are going up against an opponent whose ability to assess the situation and make decisions is statistically ...
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Mar 13, 2012 |
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Metacognition: I know (or don't know) that I know
At New York University, Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Steve Fleming is exploring the neural basis of metacognition: how we think about thinking, and how we assess the accuracy of our decisions, ...
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Feb 27, 2012 |
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Decision making
Decision making can be regarded as an outcome of mental processes (cognitive process) leading to the selection of a course of action among several alternatives. Every decision making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an opinion of choice.
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