We have long been told a simple story about reward: Dopamine is the "wanting" molecule that drives us toward goals, and ...

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An attorney from the Justice & Accountability Center of Louisiana will give a talk via Zoom about navigating the expungement ...

When you get better at a skill-recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game-sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, ...

A late-maturing brain filter in the thalamus prunes noisy sensory inputs over time, helping adults ignore distractions and focus, offering a neural basis for growing wisdom.

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A randomized placebo controlled experiment shows that increasing noradrenaline during learning does not improve basic memory accuracy but increases the spread of associations across the hippocampal ...

Researchers challenge the "efficiency" theory of the brain, showing that neurons become more coordinated and share more information as learning occurs.

Researchers challenge the long-standing "neural independence" theory, showing that learning actually makes neurons more coordinated.

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