Individual human brain cells can be savvy shoppers, tuning their behavior to precisely reflect the worth of a candy bar, finds a study published January 5 in The Journal of Neuroscience. Evaluating objects is ?something we all do on a moment-to-moment basis,? says study coauthor Rick Jenison of the University of Wisconsin?Madison, but just how the human brain tallies up value isn?t clear.
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