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New research shows that the hippocampus in the brain processes immediate goals first.
First published on my Substack: https://leadingbrainsreview.substack.com/
Isn’t the hippocampus more responsible for memory and not setting priorities?
Yes, that is true, but you have to recall a goal to be able to prioritise it. And this is what a team of researchers from the University of Geneva, here in Switzerland, and the Icahn School of Medicine, in New York explored.
Specifically they wanted to investigate how the brain distinguishes and prioritises between different goals and how this is represented behaviourally, ie. in what we do, and in the brain itself.
And how did they do this — sounds hard to measure?
Yes, indeed and the answer is though a mars mission!
A mars mission!?
Yes, sounds strange but to make the goals the same for everyone and change the goals over time, the 31 participants went through a simulated mars mission with multiple goals that changed after they had completed each.
They measured response times to these different goals and also could therefore map the exact same goals across the 31 participants…
