Pinpointing the Brain's Arbitrator (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Pinpointing the Brain's Arbitrator

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Caltech researchers used a combination of computational modeling and behavioral and fMRI data to pick apart the roles of various brain regions involved in a type of behavioral control. The circles (some bearing coins) and shaded squares relate to a decision-making task given to subjects in the study.

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Caltech/Sang Wan Lee/<i>Neuron</i>/Elsevier

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