When it comes to making big decisions, we’re often told to “listen to our gut” – but if you’ve ever wondered what’s really at play, a team of scientists from NSW Uni is breaking down what intuition is. Neuroscientist Joel Pearson is studying how details picked up by our subconscious mind end up affecting and influencing our decisions, feelings and behaviour. He says what it boils down to is “the learned, positive use of unconscious information for better decisions or actions” using all our senses whether we realise it or not… Pearson says our brains are then “going to be making a prediction based on prior learning, situations you’ve been in, also movies you’ve watched and all the things that you’ve been through in your life”. That means we’re pretty clever, but it doesn’t explain why we keep going back to the biscuit barrel even though we feel a bit sick…