“Green energy is shielding Australia from a global power price shock″ (8/6) should be compulsory reading for all Australians, but particularly Joyce, Hanson, Abbott, Taylor, Canavan and Rinehart.
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New preprint (doi.org/10.64898/202...) shows that where you look next is an economic decision.
Saccades trade off effort-costs (measured via pupil) against monetary rewards.
1) By default, participants have strong saccade direction preferences (e.g., cardinal over diagonal, up over down)
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This is truly mind-blowing: Norway has gone from near-zero sales of non‑emitting battery electric vehicles to now close to 100% of all new passenger car sales - achieved in about 13 years.
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OFC encodes option values while LPFC tracks spatial locations during both overt (eye movements) and covert (internal) attention.
Effects of overt and covert attention on decision-making dynamics in prefrontal cortex
doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Our brains don’t think in a steady stream. They rhythmically “scan” different alternatives, using attention cycles to sample and compare choices.
Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain
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How humans process competing information when making multi-alternative decisions remains unclear. Here, the authors show that the brain resolves the trade-off between “evaluating within” and “comparin...
