January 28, 2022
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Okayama University
Kochi University of Technology
In a joint study, Associate Professor Koji Jimura of the Faculty of Science and Technology at ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app (Guest Associate Professor at Kochi University of Technology) and Associate Professor Teppei Matsui of Okayama University, along with Yoshiki Hattori (a first-year master's student at the Graduate School of Science and Technology, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app), Professor Kiyoshi Nakahara and Project Professor Maki Takeda of Kochi University of Technology, and others, have discovered that when humans make decisions in complex situations, low future uncertainty causes a switch in decision-making strategies due to the cognitive control mechanisms of the frontoparietal cortex, leading to a bias in choices. These results indicate that the factors considered in decision-making are switched by cognitive control mechanisms depending on the situation, illustrating the flexibility of human decision-making and cognition. This research was published in the early-access version of the academic journal NeuroImage on January 8.
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