Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

The story is in the first paragraph: "The process of making a decision engages neurons across the entire brain, according to a new mouse dataset created by an international collaboration." This is important because it corrects previous theories localizing decision-making and other functions to specific areas of the brain, which argues against theories that say things like there's a 'language centre' in the brain. Here's the original article in Nature.

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