Gaining new insights into how the brain makes decisions (VIDEO)

Harvard Medical School

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Left: a mouse’s view as it runs a T-shaped maze in virtual reality and decides which way to turn. Right: structural data show randomly color-coded neurons in the posterior parietal cortex blinking as they fire during the maze task.

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Aaron Kuan

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