Live brain imaging techniques reveal how the primary motor cortex responds to reward to optimize learning.
A region of the brain called the primary motor cortex (M1) is a critical site for learning motor skills (such as riding a bicycle). Moreover, reward is known to accelerate and enhance motor learning, however, it is not understood how reward exerts these effects. While reward has previously been shown to activate neurons in M1 […]
Distinct neural codes underlie long- and short-term memory in different regions of the primate brain.
Human memory can be divided into long and short-term according to the time information can remain stored and have been associated to different brain regions. The hippocampus (HPC) has been associated with the formation of long-term memories stored as changes in the strength of synapses that can last decades. On the other hand, the Lateral […]