Neuroscientists have shown that stimulating the caudate nucleus can generate negative moods that lead to irrational decision-making. Stimulating the caudate nucleus causes animals to give far more ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A brain structure called the caudate nucleus, which plays an important role in cognition, emotions, mood, and motor function, may shrink by nearly 20 percent in persons with multiple ...

Stimulation of the caudate nucleus modifies inputs to the visual system of the cat. The modification of such sensory information is similar to the modification seen on stimulation of the thalamus and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Motor skill learning involves a complex process of generating novel movement patterns guided by evaluative feedback, such as a reward.

The caudate nucleus (green) is a subcortical brain region located in the striatum. The striatum is one of several neural structures that make up the basal ganglia (colored regions) located below the ...

Children who survive very preterm birth without major disability have a high prevalence of learning difficulty, attention deficit, and minor motor impairment (MMI). To determine whether these ...

If you have a knack for knowing just the right move to make — in a board game or in other walks of life — it might be because your brain has built up a special kind of connection. Researchers at Japan ...

There’s a provocative and fascinating opinion article in the New York Times by neuroeconomics professor Gregory Burns where he describes his latest work studying dogs. After training and scanning the ...

Action is controlled by both motivation and cognition. The basal ganglia may be the site where these kinds of information meet. Using a memory-guided saccade task with an asymmetric reward schedule, ...