{"id":242924,"date":"2026-08-20T05:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/neuroscientist-challenges-the-idea-that-your-brain-makes-decisions"},"modified":"2026-08-20T05:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:20:40","slug":"neuroscientist-challenges-the-idea-that-your-brain-makes-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/neuroscientist-challenges-the-idea-that-your-brain-makes-decisions","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientist Challenges the Idea That Your Brain \u201cMakes\u201d Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscientist-challenges-the-idea-that-your-brain-makes-decisions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A professor proposes that behavior emerges through continuous interactions among sensory, sensorimotor, and motor processes rather than a dedicated decision-making mechanism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There may be a gap between how people believe decisions are made and what actually happens inside the brain, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/indiana-university\/\">Indiana University<\/a> professor Tom James.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, both scientific theories and everyday thinking have treated decision-making as a separate step between perception and action. Under this traditional view, information moves through a linear sequence from sensing to thinking to acting, with each stage linked to a distinct brain function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A professor proposes that behavior emerges through continuous interactions among sensory, sensorimotor, and motor processes rather than a dedicated decision-making mechanism. There may be a gap between how people believe decisions are made and what actually happens inside the brain, according to Indiana University professor Tom James. For decades, both scientific theories and everyday thinking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242924","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}