Researchers find that the amygdala is a sophisticated mediator that chooses between action-based and stimulus-based learning ...
Teachers are increasingly encouraged to become amateur neuroscientists. For the last decade, educational materials have promoted neuroplasticity, the brain’s capacity for adaptation, as the key to ...
New research shows The amygdala helps choose between competing strategies when rewards are uncertain and decisions get confusing.
A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in ...
Over the past two decades educators and psychologists have extolled the application of brain-based learning programs. Buzzwords such as neuroplasticity and prefrontal cortex are commonplace to the ...