Brain: How to optimize decision making? Date: September 11, 2019 Source: Université de Genève Summary: Our brains are constantly faced with different choices. Why is it so difficult to make up ...

The brain is the most complex organ and system know to humans. It helps to create a computer model of one to find out how things work, and why things go wrong.

In a new paper, researchers describe a relatively accessible method for making a working -- though not thinking -- sphere of central nervous system tissue. The advance could provide an inexpensive ...

The striatum is known to play a critical role in the human brain by coordinating multiple aspects of cognition, including decision-making, motor control, motivation, and reward perception.

The Human Brain Project has just won a €1 billion research prize. Its director Henry Markram says the initiative will unify our understanding of the brain ...