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National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped how individual neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex receive ...

By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, researchers are shedding light on the holy grail of neuroscience: the mechanics of how we learn. The team ...

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Researchers believe oaths have the power to increase honest behavior, but they often come with penalties for transgressions, so the power of the promise itself is unclear. Can merely making a ...

We're all familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting stimulus. Perhaps you experience it yourself when passing a cafe or restaurant and ...

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