The Science Behind It All

Like many colleges, Brown University has its own personal research projects. Science Daily, an online research new source, recently commented on the newest findings on where the decision making process happens in an article titled, “Evidence Appears to Show How and Where the Brain’s Frontal Lobe Works”. The writer explains that “the frontal lobe of the human brain controls decision-making along a continuum from abstract to concrete, from front to back”(Brown University). He clarifies with an example like deciding to brush your teeth which is an abstract decision. Concrete decisions are the steps used to brush your teeth. Through the use of stroke patients the scientists were able to figure out that the front part of the frontal lobe controls the abstract decisions while the back area does concrete. The best part to all this being that the new evidence may be used to treat stroke patients and learning how we develop thoughts.

I sort of wished that I would have done this article first. It was a good look into the actual scientific aspects of how we make decisions. There were some areas that sort of confused me because I wasn’t sure where the author was going at times. Now I have an inside look on how things actually work, and how people perceive that their decisions are made.

Brown University. "Evidence Appears To Show How And Where Brain's Frontal Lobe Works." ScienceDaily 3 March 2009. 2 April 2010 .