Like a treasure map, brain region emphasizes reward location

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - 11:20 in Psychology & Sociology

We are free to wander, but usually when we go somewhere it’s for a reason. In a new study, researchers at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT show that as we pursue life’s prizes, a region of the brain tracks our location with an especially strong predilection for the location of the […]

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