Human beings like to think that we make each of our decisions consciously or, in other words, that there is free will . However, neuroscientist Patrick Haggard, from University College London (United Kingdom), assures that brain studies indicate that before we are aware that we are deciding something as simple as whether we will drink tea or coffee for breakfast, or what We will travel the way to get to work, our brain has already chosen. The choices about what our next action will be are the result of a series of biochemical reactions that occur in the parietal cortex, as demonstrated by Angela Sirigu, a neuroscientist at the CNRS Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, in France.
On the other hand, scientists from the University of California (USA) have proven that by analyzing an area of the prefrontal cortex with functional magnetic resonance imaging it is possible to predict human behavior in 3 out of 4 cases , revealing the purposes and desires of individuals before even that they know them.
To this is added that research published recently in The Journal of Neuroscience revealed that there is a connection between the activity of the human brain in the neurons nucleus accumbens – the center of rewards – and future behavior with respect to food and sex , so that with a scan you can guess how much a person will weigh in six months, and even what their sex life will be like then.
