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A new collaborative approach to investigate what happens in the brain when it makes a decision

  • Written by Anne Churchland, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
imageWhat's going on in there when you decide?Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock.com

Decisions span a vast range of complexity. There are really simple ones: Do I want an apple or a piece of cake with my lunch? Then there are much more complicated ones: Which car should I buy, or which career should I choose?

Neuroscientists like me have identified some of the...

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