How brain responds to haste

How brain responds to haste

    In a new study, researchers at Vanderbilt University has found that the brain actually switches into a special mode when pushed to make rapid decisions.
    “If we can understand how our brain changes when we are pushed to respond faster, we have gone a long way towards understanding the decisionmaking process in general,” researcher Richard Heitz said.
    Numerous behavioural and brain-mapping studies have supported a simple model — the brain uses the same basic method to make both deliberate and rapid decisions.
    Because the brain must make snap decisions based on less information than it uses for slower decisions, the likelihood that it will make mistakes increases. But no previous experiment was capable of studying the decision-making process at the level of individual brain cells called neurons.
    Interestingly, it is possible to measure the activity of individual neurons in monkeys.