According to the scientists published in the latest issue of the journal Neuron , neuroimaging techniques reveal that our brain simulates the mental processes of other subjects . Or, put another way, it "gets into their heads." For this to happen, the prefrontal cortex takes care, on the one hand, of calculating the value that the other subject will give to the rewards that will be obtained from the different options to choose, based on their values and priorities, and simulates how it will affect that to your decision, choosing the most probable. In addition, another group of neurons is in charge of comparing this prediction with the action that is finally carried out, to, in a way, learn from the errors and refine the prognosis further on the next occasion that comes our way.
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Not only can we but, to live in society, it is essential to be able to predict the decisions that others will make , both personally and professionally. Researchers at the RIKEN Institute of Neurosciences in Japan have discovered that there are two different brain signals in the human prefrontal cortex that are involved in this ability to "tell the future."
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