Green: NAc-projecting prefrontal cortex neurons become active during the presentation of a reward-predictive cue, and this activity drives reward-seeking behavior. Purple: PVT-projecting prefrontal cortex neurons inhibited during reward-predictive cue. Credit: The Stuber Lab (UNC School of Medicine)
The prefrontal cortex,...
An illustration showing the portions of the brain involved in perception of a visual boundary, like a curb or a wall.Credit: Soojin Park/JHU
Humans rely on boundaries like walls and curbs for navigation, and Johns Hopkins University researchers have pinpointed...
A new theory regarding how the brain first learns basic math could alter approaches to identifying and teaching students with math learning disabilities.Credit: Flickr/timypenburg
A new theory regarding how the brain first learns basic math could alter approaches to identifying...
Older people who help and support others live longer, a new study says. Image credit: Flickr/Michael Wacker Follow
Older people who help and support others live longer. These are the findings of a study published in the journal Evolution and...
NYU researchers offer a new theory, based on a computational model, on how the brain separates relevant from irrelevant information in these and other circumstances.
Imagine yourself sitting in a noisy café trying to read. To focus on the book...
We make snap judgments of others based not only on their facial appearance, but also on our pre-existing beliefs about how others' personalities work, finds a new study by a team of psychology researchers.
Its work, reported in the journal...
Johns Hopkins University cognitive psychologists are the first to link human's long-term visual memory with how things move.Image Credit:Flickr/amy leonard
As Superman flies over the city, people on the ground famously suppose they see a bird, then a plane, and...
Sight, touch and hearing are our windows to the world: these sensory channels send a constant flow of information to the brain, which acts to sort out and integrate these signals, allowing us to perceive the world and interact...
Credit: NIH - National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
A chemical byproduct, or metabolite, created as the body breaks down ketamine likely holds the secret to its rapid antidepressant action, National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and grantees have discovered....
Always surrounded by an aura of mystery, the moon and its possible influence over human behavior has been object of ancestral fascination and mythical speculation for centuries. While the full moon cannot turn people into werewolves, some people do...
Early in learning (left) the shock is unexpected and sends a powerful signal to the amygdala (lateral portion, LA) to trigger a memory of the tone-shock association. After learning (right) the tone fully predicts the shock and engages a...
