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Volition is key to memory and learning
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Active or voluntary learning is a major topic in education, psychology, and rehabilitation after brain damage. Over the years, numerous studies have shown that when learning occurs through voluntary action, there is a modulation of attention, motivation and cognitive control that makes the process much more effective. Consequently, memory is benefited. Nevertheless, whereas the physiological processes underlying this reality has been identified in the brain of mice, their existence in humans had not been yet confirmed. • Now, an international group of researchers led by ICREA Research Professor Paul Verschure from the SPECS laboratory at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and Professor Nikolai Axmacher from the Department of Neuropsychology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany), in collaboration with Pompeu Fabra University and Dr. Rodrigo Rocamora from Hospital del Mar, have identified for the first time in humans, the mechanism responsible for this phenomenon. • The key lies in the oscillations of theta waves generated by the hippocampus of the human brain, when it is the brain that has control of the learning process. • see the full paper here • Pacheco Estefan D., Zucca, R., Arsiwalla, X., Principe, A., Zhang, H., Rocamora, R., ... Verschure, P. F. (2021). Volitional learning promotes theta phase coding in the human hippocampus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(10). • https://www.pnas.org/content/118/10/e... • This research received funding from the Horizon2020-EU program under grant agreement of the project ReHyb, ID: 871767; Virtual Brain Cloud project ID: 826421. N.A. and the German Research Foundation) projects 316803389–SFB 1280 and 122679504–SFB 874.
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