A simple method of brain stimulation has been shown to change how people make decisions. These were the findings of a new ...

Thalamic regions drive conscious perception by syncing with the prefrontal cortex, acting as a gateway to awareness. Using ...

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Beijing Normal University-led researchers have identified specific high-order thalamic nuclei that drive human conscious ...

This important study presents single-unit activity collected during model-based (MB) and model-free (MF) reinforcement learning in non-human primates. The dataset was carefully collected, and the ...

In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

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A new study using intracranial recordings in humans reveals that the thalamus, particularly its higher-order regions, plays a ...