Artificially Stimulating a Brain Region can Change a Monkey's Choice

Stimulating a brain region artificially is believed to play a key role in learning, reward and motivation induced monkeys to change which of two images they choose to look at. In experiments reported online in the journal iCurrent Biology/i, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of Leuven in Belgium confirm for the first time that stimulation of the ventral tegmental area (VTA) - a group of neurons at the base of the midbrain ...

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