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Nature 411, 126-128 (10 May 2001) | doi:10.1038/35075745
Decisions, decisions...
Bas Kast1
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Abstract
By recording the electrical activity of individual neurons in monkeys, neuroscientists are beginning to understand how the brain makes simple decisions. Bas Kast considers the links between perception and action.
"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."When the US linguist and political scientist Noam Chomsky uttered these words in a television interview in 1978, they had the ring of truth.
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