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Pinpointing the brain’s arbitrator: Reliability weighed before brain centers given control

February 5, 2014 by

Researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed areas of the brain -- the inferior lateral prefrontal cortex and frontopolar cortex -- that seem to serve as an "arbitrator" between two decision-making systems, weighing the reliability of the predictions each makes and then allocating control accordingly.

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