Brains Decide Before You Think | Science News

Science News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 13, 2026 · 1m

New research is rewriting how we understand brain decision-making—revealing that choices aren’t just made in the brain’s command center but emerge early in sensory areas through dynamic feedback loops. This challenges decades-old models and could revolutionize AI by mimicking the brain’s energy-efficient, evolutionary-designed decision systems. Using mice in virtual mazes, scientists found sensory cortex regions actively participate in decisions, receiving and sending signals back and forth. Now, they’re decoding the timing of these neural conversations to unlock how nature’s intelligence can…