Month: June 2020

What Are Memories For? The Hippocampus Bridges Past Experience with Future Decisions

Many decisions require flexible reasoning that depends on inference, generalization, and deliberation. Here, we review emerging findings indicating that the hippocampus, known for its role in long-term memory, contributes to these flexible aspects of value-based decision-making. This work offers new insights into the role of memory in decision-making and suggests that memory may shape decisions […]

Published on June 6, 2020

Not children, but ‘super-happy families’ the aim of assisted reproduction

Researchers studied how staff at fertility clinics view the assessments that childless couples and women undergo in order to access assisted reproduction. It emerges in the interviews that the assessment of the potential parents is based on the child’s future welfare and on the responsible use of public resources. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. […]

Published on June 6, 2020