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Research shows that, in Attribution Theory, four factors shape a person’s motivation to engage and learn across any field or ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

New research suggests intelligence arises not from a single brain region, but from how networks across the brain work together as an integrated system. Neuroscientists often describe the brain as a ...