Complex brain functions help adapt to new situations and stimuli

Scientists have long known that the brain's frontal cortex supports concrete rule learning. Less clear is how the brain processes more complex and unfamiliar knowledge. In a paper published Wednesday, April 28, 2010 in the journal Neuron, a team of researchers at Brown University and the University of California - Berkeley tested whether the frontal lobe has the ability to process more abstract knowledge and how this ability could help navigate new situations and stimuli...

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