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·October 28, 2020·7 min read

Why Motivation to Learn Declines With Age

The decline of striosomal activity in the brain may explain why people lose the motivation to learn as they age.

Featured Neuroscience

·October 26, 2020·3 min read

How to Figure Out What You Don’t Know

Testing multiple computational models of the nervous system, researchers discover that just because a model can make accurate predictions about data, this doesn't always translate into the underlying logic of the biological system it represents.

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Featured Genetics Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 22, 2020·3 min read

How Genetic Variation Gives Rise to Differences in Mathematical Ability

Genetic variants of ROBO1 in young children are associated with gray matter volume in the right parietal cortex. This, in turn, predicts mathematical tests scored by second grade.

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Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 20, 2020·4 min read

Rethinking the Link Between Cannabinoids and Learning

Disrupted cannabinoid signaling impairs learning by altering behavioral states.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·October 15, 2020·3 min read

Automatic Decision-Making Prevents Us Harming Others

People make automatic and efficient decisions when learning to avoid others. When learning to avoid harming themselves, people make become more deliberative. The study also found people were more willing to repeat decisions that were previously harmful to themselves if they believed better results would occur in the future.

Featured Neuroscience

·October 9, 2020·4 min read

Nerve Cell Activity Shows How Confident We Are

Neurons located in the medial temporal lobe become more active when we make a decision with confidence.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 8, 2020·5 min read

Musical Training Can Improve Attention and Working Memory in Children

Children who learn to play musical instruments have an edge over their non-musical peers when it comes to learning, memory, and attention. Those who learn musical instruments showed greater activity in the inferior frontal gyrus and the supramarginal gyrus, which are parts of the "phonological loop". The phonological loop is associated with working memory involved in auditory processing. Researchers say learning an instrument also has positive implications on creativity and quality of life overall for children.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·October 5, 2020·3 min read

How the Brain May Fuel Intense Neural Communication

The retrieval of mitochondria via a feedback loop is vital to sustaining synaptic transmission.

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·October 3, 2020·5 min read

Could a Fecal Transplant One Day Be the Secret of Eternal Youth?

Fecal transplants could someday be a useful tool to help improve cognitive decline associated with aging, a new study reports.

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·October 1, 2020·6 min read

Why Writing by Hand Makes Kids Smarter

Children learn more and remember better when writing by hand, a new study reports. The brains of children are more active when handwriting than typing on a computer keyboard.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 18, 2020·5 min read

Primary Role of Sleep Changes From Learning Support to Brain Maintenance in Early Childhood

When a child reaches the age of two-and-a-half, the primary purpose of sleep changes from brain-building to brain maintenance and repair, a role it maintains for the rest of our lives.