Rational Decision-Making May Be Dependent Upon Neurons In The Frontal Lobe

You study the menu at a restaurant and decide to order the steak rather than the salmon. But when the waiter tells you about the lobster special, you decide lobster trumps steak. Without reconsidering the salmon, you place your order - all because of a trait called “transitivity.”"Transitivity is the hallmark of rational economic choice,” says Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, a postdoctoral researcher in HMS Professor of Neurobiology John Assad’s lab. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Biology on December 11th, 2007