Transfer Of Learning Traced To Areas Of The Brain

Practice makes perfect, but a question that still remains a mystery is why it is so difficult to transfer learning from a trained to an untrained task? Why are we no better at remembering faces when we have been training our memory for words? Scientists at Umea University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden now show in the journal Science that the answer lies in the brain areas activated by each task.

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Filed under: Neurology / Neuroscience on June 19th, 2008