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·August 8, 2026·11 min read

Prefrontal Cortex Can Block Creative Problem-Solving

The medial prefrontal cortex can block creative problem-solving by enforcing default habits, and silencing it accelerates strategy shifts.

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·July 29, 2026·7 min read

How Musical Improvisation Rewires Brain Activity

Musical improvisation suppresses self-critical prefrontal regions in adults and activates intrinsic reward structures in children, demonstrating that generative creativity is an innate brain mechanism.

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·August 27, 2025·4 min read

Brain Map Reveals How Stress and Social Control Interconnect

A new study has identified a key brain hub in the medial prefrontal cortex that regulates stress responses and social behavior, offering critical insights into psychiatric conditions. Using advanced imaging and AI mapping in mice, scientists charted how these regions integrate sensory and bodily signals to control emotional stability.

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·May 15, 2025·5 min read

The Brain Learns to Fear Through Inference, Not Just Experience

A new study reveals how rats can learn to fear through inference, offering insights into the neural basis of higher-order emotions. By pairing a neutral sound and image, then associating the image with an unpleasant experience, researchers showed that rats later feared the sound alone—demonstrating inferred emotional learning.

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·May 10, 2024·7 min read

Brain Flexibility: Neurons Multitask to Shape Perception and Action

A new study explains how the brain balances flexibility with focus through "mixed selectivity" in neurons. This mechanism allows neurons to participate in multiple computational tasks simultaneously, thus enhancing cognitive flexibility.

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·February 27, 2023·4 min read

How the Brain Creates Your Taste in Art

Using a combination of machine learning and neuroimaging data, researchers revealed a neural basis for aesthetic appreciation.

This shows the maze the researchers used

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·October 19, 2022·7 min read

Brain’s Sensitivity to Different Types of Regret May Impact Mood Disorders Like Depression

Study finds mice show sensitivity to two different types of regret, and the different thought processes stem from different parts of the brain. Researchers also identified a genetic marker that predisposes maladaptive stress response traits and vulnerability to depression was linked to sensitivity to one type of regret.