The Neuroscience of Decision-Making (IMAGE)

Brown University

The Neuroscience of Decision-Making

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By examining stroke victims, researchers determined that the brain’s frontal lobe controls decision-making, with abstract decisions made closer to the front and concrete decisions farther back.

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