{"id":206397,"date":"2025-02-14T00:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T06:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/unlocking-the-minds-decision-making-engine-how-working-memory-shapes-our-choices"},"modified":"2025-02-14T00:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T06:08:48","slug":"unlocking-the-minds-decision-making-engine-how-working-memory-shapes-our-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/unlocking-the-minds-decision-making-engine-how-working-memory-shapes-our-choices","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the mind\u2019s decision-making engine: How working memory shapes our choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unlocking-the-minds-decision-making-engine-how-working-memory-shapes-our-choices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study led by Prof. Li Hai from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed that the balance between habitual and goal-directed decision-making strategies is influenced by the availability of working memory resources.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/jocn_a_02237\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience<\/i><\/a>, provide a new framework for understanding how sequential decisions are made.<\/p>\n<p>Everyday decisions often involve a series of choices aimed at reaching a goal-whether selecting a restaurant or deciding on the route. People vary in how they make decisions: some rely on habits, while others adjust based on new information and changing goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study led by Prof. Li Hai from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed that the balance between habitual and goal-directed decision-making strategies is influenced by the availability of working memory resources. The findings, published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, provide a new framework for understanding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206397","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}