Adaptable decision making in the brain
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 00:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Researchers have discovered how a part of the brain helps predict future events from past experiences. The work sheds light on the function of the front-most part of the frontal lobe, known as the frontopolar cortex, an area of the cortex uniquely well developed in humans in comparison with apes and other primates.
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