Chocolate or strawberry? Life or death? We make some choices quickly and automatically, relying on mental shortcuts our brains have developed over the years to guide us in the best course of action.

Your brain constantly juggles sensory information to make split-second decisions, but how? A new latent circuit model ...

The key to successful AI adoption is harnessing the power of AI while still safeguarding the human ability to maintain objectivity and common sense in decision-making.

A new mathematical model sheds light on how the brain processes different cues, such as sights and sounds, during decision making.

Participants completed the Effort Foraging Task, a decision-making exercise that evaluates how people balance effort and reward. The task required participants to “harvest” rewards from ...

In the past decade, however, the study of decision-making in these conditions has increased, prompting the development of new tasks that have enabled this cognitive process to be readily assessed ...