MIT researchers find 2 brain circuits involved with habitual learning

Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 06:42 in Psychology & Sociology

Driving to and from work is a habit for most commuters - we do it without really thinking. But before our commutes became routine, we had to learn our way through trial-and-error exploration. A new study out of MIT has found that there are two brain circuits involved with this kind of learning and that the patterns of activity in these circuits evolve as our behaviours become more habitual...

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