{"id":31301,"date":"2020-04-03T09:12:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T13:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=31301"},"modified":"2020-04-12T02:34:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T06:34:49","slug":"study-suggests-brain-waves-indicate-how-you-will-respond-to-your-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2020\/04\/study-suggests-brain-waves-indicate-how-you-will-respond-to-your-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests brain waves indicate how you will respond to your bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Society of Neuroscience press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The strength of alpha brain waves reveals if you are about to make a biased decision<\/strong>, according to research recently published in\u00a0<strong><em>JNeurosci<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has bias, and neuroscientists can see what happens inside your brain as you succumb to it. The clue comes from alpha brain waves &#8212; a pattern of activity when the neurons in the front of your brain fire in rhythm together. <strong>Alpha brain waves pop up when people make decisions<\/strong>, but it remains unclear what their role is.<\/p>\n<p>Grabot and Kayser used electroencephalography to monitor the brain activity of adults while they made a decision. The participants saw a picture and heard a sound milliseconds apart and then decided which one came first. Prior to the experiment, the researchers determined if the participants possessed a bias for choosing the picture or sound. Before the first stimulus appeared, the strength of the alpha waves revealed how the participants would decide. <strong>Weaker alpha waves meant resisting the bias; stronger alpha waves indicated succumbing to the bias.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Society of Neuroscience press release: The strength of alpha brain waves reveals if you are about to make a biased decision, according to research recently published in\u00a0JNeurosci. Everyone&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2020\/04\/study-suggests-brain-waves-indicate-how-you-will-respond-to-your-bias\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[526,6],"tags":[20,82,42,93,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31315,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31301\/revisions\/31315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}