How the brain helps us make good decisions -- and bad ones

(Yale University) A prevailing theory in neuroscience holds that people make decisions based on integrated global calculations that occur within the frontal cortex of the brain. However, Yale researchers have found that three distinct circuits connecting to different brain regions are involved in making good decisions, bad ones and determining which of those past choices to store in memory, they report June 25 in the journal Neuron.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news