Scientists have been investigating how the brain makes decisions by participating in the storage of associations between different stimuli.

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Differences in political beliefs appear to be rooted in brain differences in how we process emotion. Understanding our ...

Australian start-up Cortical Labs and UK’s bit.bio have built CL1 with the aim of creating ‘synthetic biological intelligence’ ...

A new study reveals how the brain can make decisions based not only on direct experiences, but also on indirect associations ...

Our brain makes decisions based on direct associations between stimuli in our environment, but it often also does so based on ...