{"id":175657,"date":"2023-11-09T12:16:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/brain-states-influence-on-decision-making"},"modified":"2023-11-09T12:16:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:16:57","slug":"brain-states-influence-on-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/brain-states-influence-on-decision-making","title":{"rendered":"Brain States Influence on Decision-Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-states-influence-on-decision-making2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>New study on mice decision-making reveals that choice is not a singular moment but a reflection of the brain\u2019s preexisting state.<\/p>\n<p>The research, using Buridan\u2019s Assay, suggests that the mice\u2019s brain constantly broadcasts its goal, even before options are available, with patterns of neuron activity predicting choice.<\/p>\n<p>Hunger and thirst don\u2019t directly drive behavior; instead, they modulate the brain\u2019s goal-setting, with an element of randomness causing switches between needs, ensuring both are met over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: New study on mice decision-making reveals that choice is not a singular moment but a reflection of the brain\u2019s preexisting state. The research, using Buridan\u2019s Assay, suggests that the mice\u2019s brain constantly broadcasts its goal, even before options are available, with patterns of neuron activity predicting choice. Hunger and thirst don\u2019t directly drive behavior; [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}