This activity was supported by Contract No. 2014-14041100003-009 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, ...

Children’s food perception and decision-making emerge from the interplay of sensory experience, cognitive appraisal and socio-environmental influences. From infancy, repeated exposure to flavours, ...

A key to understanding the brain lies in unpacking how hundreds of interconnected brain areas process information that leads to various outputs. In order to try to understand this, researchers ...

Brain-wide map showing 75,000 analysed neurons lighting up during different stages of decision-making. At the beginning of the trial, the activity is quiet. Then it builds up in the visual areas at ...

The first complete activity map of the brain has been unveiled by a large international collaboration of neuroscientists. The International Brain Laboratory (IBL) researchers published their findings ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bryce Hoffman writes about leadership, strategy, and decision making. Among the many threats to decision making, few are as ...

Most leadership development fails because it discounts perception. While executives perfect their skills in boardrooms, their influence evaporates in daily interactions, killed by a perception gap ...

For the next 60 seconds, close your eyes and focus on your heartbeat. Now pick a button on your keyboard and tap the button with your finger each time you think you feel a beat. Can you detect each ...

In previous posts on The Forensic View, we have seen that eyewitness memories can be reconfigured in the direction of a witness's personal beliefs (Bartlett, 1932; Loftus, 1979; Sharps, 2022). This ...