January 28, 2022
Keio University
Okayama University
Kochi University of Technology
In a joint study, Associate Professor Koji Jimura of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University (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, Keio University), 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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