Unlocking the secret to changing our minds

You're sitting in a meeting and start to feel your stomach rumble. You reach for a muffin but stop when you realise that there's only one left and your manager is watching. In that moment, you make the decision to go hungry. But what happened in your brain in the split second where you changed your mind? A new study from the University of Melbourne and the University College London (UCL) has investigated how our brains integrate new information to allow us to change our final decisions.