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Unexpected events: researchers have discovered how two brain areas (neocortex and thalamus) work together to detect discrepancies between what animals expect from their environment and actual events

27 days ago sainsburywellcome.org brain neuroscience

Neuroscientists have uncovered a key brain area in rats -the frontal and parietal cortex- that encodes the value of economic choices when faced with the economic decisions or uncertainty of a lottery

11 months ago sainsburywellcome.org brain economic neuroscience

Neuroscientists have uncovered how exploratory actions enable animals to learn their spatial environment more efficiently

17 months ago sainsburywellcome.org neuroscience

Brain circuit that converts spatial goals to escape actions discovered

21 months ago sainsburywellcome.org brain