The role of the hippocampus in decision-making is beginning to be more understood. Because of its prospective and inferential functions, we hypothesized that it might be required specifically when ...

There is a disconnect between what we think happens when we make a decision and what actually happens in the brain during that process, suggests Indiana University Professor of Psychological and Brain ...

During perceptual decision-making, the firing rates of cortical neurons reflect upcoming choices. Recent work showed that excitatory and inhibitory neurons are equally selective for choice. However, ...

Decisions are the lifeblood of business. From the c-suite to frontline employees, decisions are constantly being made at all levels within organizations. Some are consequential and irreversible, but ...

Most companies treat silos as a cultural problem. But they’re also an execution problem and a growth constraint. Silos refer ...

A decision-maker within a business doesn't have the luxury of indecision. With each pause in making critical decisions, the risk of issues arising increases. Executives in companies therefore need to ...

Decision fatigue refers to a decline in the quality of decisions after making several consecutive choices with sustained demands on cognitive and self-regulatory processes that reduce the ability to ...

A couple of years ago I attended a seminar by University of Toronto professor Avi Goldfarb, who researches the economic value of artificial intelligence. Prof. Goldfarb explained that the best way to ...

Financial well-being is a strong determinant of human. Individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds encounter a disproportionate amount of chronic ...