Functional MRI shows how mindfulness meditation changes decision-making process

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 10:30 in Psychology & Sociology

If a friend or relative won $100 and then offered you a few dollars, would you accept this windfall? The logical answer would seem to be, sure, why not? "But human decision making does not always appear rational," said Read Montague, professor of physics at Virginia Tech and director of the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.

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