As my family and I watch the excitement of March Madness unfold, I’ve noticed that there are deeper lessons embedded within the games, especially in the journey of the N.C. State basketball teams. A N ...

The human capacity to learn exceeds that of any other animal. Indeed, our massive memories and impressive computing power are the engines of all that makes us different from other animals, rooted ...

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According to a new study led by Harvard researchers in Nature Neuroscience, this so-called "learning machine" speaks in two different codes—one for recently-acquired learned movements and another for ...

The basal ganglia are a group of interconnected structures, located in the midbrain below the cerebral cortex, that play a crucial role in motor control, reward processing, and cognition. This region ...