🎯 Hedging Your Bets: How the Brain Blends Competing Goals

🧠🔀 Blend, Switch, Pursue: How the Brain Juggles Goals Must we choose one goal at a time? Apparently not. A fascinating Nature study suggests the brain continuously blends competing goals. 🎯 Using control theory and human intracranial recordings, investigators reveal a striking division of labor: 🧭 hippocampus estimates and updates the policy state, 🔀 anterior cingulate cortex anticipates…