Frontal and parietal brain areas are strongly interconnected and function together for many aspects of decision making and action selection. Especially, damage to the frontal lobe can cause decision-making impairments. Cerebral cells in the frontal cortex encode many variables that contribute to the valuation of a choice, such as its costs, benefits and probability of success. Therefore, when card players have to solve a problem, they activate frontal and parietal brain areas.
This CEREBRART work is a variation on a theme of “The Card Players” - a series of oil paintings by the French artist Paul Cézanne and illustrates a widespread network of brain regions, primarily in the frontal and parietal cortex implicated in Card-Playing.
Card Games for Brain Fitness
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I recommend to read Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics (Bradford Books). Paul W. Glimcher does extraordinary neuroscience and relates it to the most fundamental of all questions: how the brain makes decisions. His use of game theory to characterize decision making in both humans and monkeys under conditions of strategic conflict is unique.
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Artistic decision making is innate to our species. Cave paintings show that people in that time period made important decisions. Painting is a brain process requiring a million decisions so the decision-making process is good for your brain. The process of logical decision-making during the act of painting limits chaos in your brain.
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