Month: February 2021

  • Frontal brain damage makes decisions less biased

    Frontal brain damage makes decisions less biased

    Learning from reinforcement is a classic way to study how brain areas contribute to adaptive behaviour. The most frontal parts of the brain probably contribute at a very high, abstract level. In this study (Manohar et al. Cortex 2021), we asked how confident people are in what they have learned. Underside of a human brain…