Damage to parts of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a region within the prefrontal cortex, heightens monkeys’ defensive responses to threat,
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Mice can be used to study the neural circuits underlying complex decision-making, suggests an analysis of more than 500,000 mouse
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Songbirds learn to sing in a way similar to how humans learn to speak — by listening to their fathers
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Monkeys who learned how to gamble have helped researchers pinpoint an area of the brain key to one’s willingness to
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Studies of the song of the fruit flies reveal new findings of how the neurons in the brain function. These
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You don’t focus as well as you think you do. That’s the fundamental finding of a team of researchers from
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Children are constantly learning new things, but whether they find it easy or hard to generalise what they have learned
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Researchers have shed new light on the psychiatric and neurological problems that Ebola survivors can suffer from, and call for
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