Researchers illuminate the gap between experience and association
Monday, December 12, 2011 - 06:30
in Psychology & Sociology
(Medical Xpress) -- In the moments after lightning streaks through the sky, we wait for the clap of thunder that experience has told us is likely to follow. In a finding that may have implications for treating Alzheimers disease, researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics in the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT report in the Dec. 9 issue of Science that they have identified for the first time the part of the brain responsible for that delayed association.