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Your brain’s decision-making cortex keeps wiring itself until your mid-twenties
People between 18 and 25 can vote, enlist in the military, and sign binding contracts, yet the brain region responsible for ...
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Your brain’s decision-making cortex finishes wiring only in your mid-twenties
Researchers examining postmortem human brains have found that the prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for planning, ...
Much criminal behavior derives from logical, if not laudable, sources. A wonderful example of this was seen in the old Bob Newhart television show. Newhart, playing a clinical psychologist, leans ...
For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical maps divide the brain into regions according to structural variations in the ...
When a writer comes up with a striking metaphor, when an engineer solves a tricky problem by combining seemingly unrelated tools, or when a child invents the rules of a new game, what happens in the ...
An international team of scientists led by the University of Surrey has discovered that a form of safe, painless, and non-invasive brain stimulation could help people who are at risk of falling behind ...
Cognitive functions, also known as intellectual functions, encompass thinking, understanding, memory, language, computation, and judgment, and are performed in the cerebrum. The prefrontal cortex (PFC ...
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