Levelling up research on the adolescent brain
Smartphone games have the potential to reveal how our brains reach decisions and how these processes can go awry ahmedgad, Pixabay.com, CC0 1.0 Interview by Juanita Bawagan December 14, 2020 / 0 Comments During adolescence, the brain undergoes a fundamental reorganisation. It is a time when many mental illnesses can first emerge, but it’s unclear how this happens. Tobias Hauser explains that harnessing the power of citizen science through games could be key to understanding this developmental period. Juanita Bawagan: Decision-making is behind every move we make and all our major life choices. What happens in our brains when we make decisions? Tobias Hauser: As we move through the world, millions of pieces of information enter our brain through our eyes, ears and other sensory organs. What happens between these inputs and our actual behaviour, when we make decisions, ranges from very simple to extremely complex. The simplest decisions are those we don’t ev...