Pinpointing the brain's arbitrator: Reliability weighed before brain centers given control
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 15:20
in Psychology & Sociology
Researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed areas of the brain -- the inferior lateral prefrontal cortex and frontopolar cortex -- that seem to serve as an "arbitrator" between two decision-making systems, weighing the reliability of the predictions each makes and then allocating control accordingly.