Saturday, April 16, 2011

How We Decide

Nice book about the workings of the prefrontal cortex. Apparently the prefrontal cortex and our emotions help us make the bulk of our decisions. It discusses what happens when the prefrontal cortex does not work well and how it becomes adept at making certain types of decisions.

One complaint I have about the book is that it seems to be a compilation of various research done by other people rather than original content from the author. It is of course nice to have all the material assembled in one place, but I thought when you write a book one should have something new to say? Or have the rules changed?

Interesting read though.

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