Making Decisions about Novel Situations

How do we make decisions about a situation we have not encountered before?

New work from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, shows that we can solve abstract problems in the same way that we can find a novel route between two known locations, by using an internal cognitive map.

You can retrieve the article via the link below:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00916-3

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