Researchers find that the amygdala is a sophisticated mediator that chooses between action-based and stimulus-based learning ...
Macaque species with higher social tolerance possess larger amygdalae, redefining the brain region as a social hub.
The brain’s primitive “fear center” may be much more than that, as new research on the amygdala suggests it plays a crucial role in learning, emotion, and decision-making. Researchers from Dartmouth ...
Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte, and for a long time, scientists thought its job was caretaking the brain, ...
New research shows The amygdala helps choose between competing strategies when rewards are uncertain and decisions get confusing.
Researchers have found that the size of the amygdala—a region of the brain involved in processing emotions—could be linked to ...
A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in ...
Macaque’s social tolerance grades, through its underlying cognitive demands, shape subcortical structures volumes.
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