Neuroscientists create ‘atlas’ showing how words are organised in the brain Read more“Life is about making decisions,” said Alexandre Pouget, a neuroscientist involved in the project at the University of Geneva. Half of the IBL researchers will perform experiments and the other half will focus on theoretical models of how the brain makes up its mind. Scientists on the project will work on exactly the same problems in precisely the same way. Photograph: Hermann Cuntz and Michael Hausser, University College LondonDecision-making is a field in itself, so IBL researchers will focus on simple, so-called perceptual decisions: those that involve responding to sights or sounds, for example. By recording from thousands of neurons throughout the mouse brain, IBL scientists hope to learn how and when neurons are pulled into the process.

Source: The Guardian September 19, 2017 05:26 UTC