Kartavya Kant Tiwari

Scientists have drawn the first ever map that shows the activity that drives the behavior of a mammal. The ambitious undertaking, which included more than a dozen labs and more than 600,000 mouse brain cells, spanned about 95% of the brain. Decision-making 'whole of brain' Published in the journal Nature, the findings challenge the conventional view of decision-making, which has it that one or two sectors of the brain are enough to make a choice possible. The research has been conducted by the International Brain Laboratory (IBL). A Landmark Collaboration in Neuroscience As per Live Science, other labs in previous studies had investigated different brain regions and behavioural tasks in slightly different ways. These differences resulted in studies with inconsistent results that were difficult to combine to draw overall conclusions about the relationship between behaviour and brain activity. To address this, the IBL created a common task across 12 labs and employed new recordin...