A Dartmouth-led study published in Neuron reveals that there's not a single rate of learning for everything we do, as the brain can self-adjust its learning rates using a synaptic mechanism called metaplasticity.
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Professor Luke Chang's research links cortical thinning over time to the ability to consider others’ intentions.
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Professor Thalia Wheatley's study of pupil dilation has found patterns that can reveal when two minds connect.
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PBS Department Chair, Professor David Bucci, flips the neural switches to replicate an “adolescent brain.”
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Neuroscience plays a starring role in a two-part series Brains on Trial With Alan Alda, airing on PBS Wednesday, September 11, and Wednesday, September 18, from 10 to 11 p.m., a project that Dartmouth Professor Thalia Wheatley, an expert in brain science and social intelligence, worked on as a consultant.
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