Non-conscious, learning systems of the brain simpler and evolutionarily older, study substantiates

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Non-conscious, learning systems of the brain simpler and evolutionarily older, study substantiates

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A new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet provides evidence that basic human learning systems use areas of the brain that also exist in the most primitive vertebrates, such as certain fish, reptiles and amphibians. The study involved an investigation into the limbic striatum, one of the evolutionarily oldest parts of the brain, and the ability to learn movements, consciously and unconsciously, through repetition.

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