Decision Making
August 22, 2022
The Unfolding of Thought
Can the neurobiology of the simplest of decisions also underlie our most complex of thoughts?
Decision Making
April 28, 2022
A Study of Pandemic’s Early Days Reveals that Hunger for Specific Information Opens Minds
By examining connections between information-seeking, learning and motivation, new study offers pointers for public-education campaigns and classrooms.
Decision Making
September 30, 2021
Columbia-led Team Awarded $18.3 Million from BRAIN Initiative to Research Decision-Making
Columbia-led Team Awarded $18.3 Million from BRAIN Initiative to Research Decision-Making
Decision Making
May 11, 2021
Why Do Thoughts Take So Much Time?
New experiments probe how we make decisions
Decision Making
December 15, 2020
How Does Uncertainty Hijack Our Attention?
New study identifies changes in brain activity that ready the brain to receive information from the senses
Decision Making
September 16, 2020
What Happens When We Look at Art?
Recent experiments explore how we respond to different kinds of paintings.
Decision Making
June 15, 2020
What is the Cerebellum?
Recent research is revealing new, complex roles for this ancient and universal brain structure.
Decision Making
February 26, 2020
How Does the Brain Put Decisions into Context?
Columbia research combines mathematics and neuroscience; highlights surprising power of one brain area to simultaneously integrate vast amounts of information.
Decision Making
February 14, 2020
How the Brain Makes Decisions Without Language
A Q&A with Herbert Terrace, Vincent Ferrera and Greg Jensen.
The Senses
February 4, 2020
Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute Announces Three Artists-in-Residence
Year-long program embeds award-winning painter, jazz musician and author with scientists studying the mind, the brain and behavior.
