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In a simple game that humans typically ace, mice learn the winning strategy, too, but refuse to commit to it, new research shows. Neuroscience discoveries ranging from the nature of memory to treatments for disease have depended on reading the minds of mice, so researchers need to truly understan

Neurotypical humans readily optimize performance in ‘reversal learning’ games, but while mice learn the winning strategy, they refuse to commit to it, a new MIT study shows. The research provides a mathematical way to track the rodents’ more mixed tactics.

Just as teams of elite athletes train alongside staffs of coaches, ensembles of neurons in the brain’s motor cortex depend on nearby astrocytes to help them learn to encode when and how to move, and the optimal timing and trajectory of a motion, a new MIT study shows.

Get latest articles and stories on Health at LatestLY. Throughout our lifetimes, we have acquired the ability to do a variety of skilled movements, from driving a car to swinging a tennis racket. You might believe that only neurons carry out this learning, but a recent study by scientists at The Picower Center for Learning and Memory at MIT demonstrates the crucial function of another type of brain cell: astrocytes. Health News | Astrocyte Cells Critical for Learning Skilled Movements: Research...

In order to uninterruptedly observe brain tissues as they grow and develop, scientists from Indian and American Institutes claim to have developed a novel solution in Cell Culture.