It turns out that in a learning task, people are guided more by advice at the start. Their genes determine how long it takes before they let the lessons of experience prevail.
Details are published in the Journal of Neuroscience. A new study finds that two brain regions have different takes on how incoming information should influence thinking.
The prefrontal cortex (PFC), the executive area of the brain and the striatum, buried deeper in the brain, is where people process experience to learn what to do
Michael Frank, assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic, and psychological sciences at Brown University
