New research reveals that individual neurons follow multiple learning rules simultaneously, challenging the long-held belief that synaptic plasticity operates uniformly throughout the brain.

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At the University of Colorado Board of Regents meeting last Thursday, Wanda James stepped off the dais, pointed fingers at her colleagues, and cast herself as the victim — in ...

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A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

Getting therapeutic drugs past the blood-brain barrier has long been one of medicine's most difficult challenges, limiting ...

In order to follow a new behavior or retain newly introduced information, the brain’s circuity undergoes ... a conundrum labeled as the “credit assignment problem.” The issue is analogous ...

Findings challenge the idea that neurons follow a single learning strategy and offer a new perspective on how the brain ...