New research reveals that the brains flexibility comes from its ability to reuse cognitive building blocks across many tasks, allowing rapid adaptation with minimal relearning. By studying monkeys performing a set of related categorization tasks, researchers found that the prefrontal cortex combines and recombines shared neural patterns like components in a modular system.
New research reveals that the brains flexibility comes from its ability to reuse cognitive building blocks across many tasks, allowing rapid adaptation with minimal relearning. By studying monkeys performing a set of related categorization tasks, researchers found that the prefrontal cortex combines and recombines shared neural patterns like components in a modular system.
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