Exploring the Neuroscience of Decision-Making • Megan Wang

(Neuroscience PhD Student, Stanford University || CA)

“What makes us human? How do we think? Is what you see something different from what I see? I am intrigued by fundamental questions about why humans think and perceive and act the way we do. I could have studied anthropology or psychology, but a few cool neuroscience classes on memory and visual perception during my undergrad set me on a different path. Now I study the neuroscience of decision-making. For instance, movement is how we interact with the world, and movement is guided by our decision-making. I come up with interesting research questions — ‘How do our movements reveal our decisions? How does the difficulty of a movement affect our decisions?’ — then record the brain activity of subjects and see how that correlates with their behavior.”