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How does your brain decide between the road not taken or the same old route? Resolving conflicting memories is key to navigation

  • Written by Paulina Maxim, Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageWhich route should you take? The familiar or the unknown?francescoch/iStock via Getty Images Plus

When was the last time you paid attention to your commute? And I don’t mean a couple of feet in front of you, at the car merging into your lane without a blinker. I mean really paid attention to the route you take.

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