In a groundbreaking discovery, neurocientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured brain images of active learning in real-time by photographing the brains of mice as they learn how-to problem solve through trial and error.
Using advanced microscopy techniques, the researchers made time-lapse movies that illustrate how a mouse actively learns a new strategy for finding hidden treats during a foraging task. The films show dramatic resculpting in the orbitofrontal cortex(link is external) (OFC) region of the frontal lobes within the cerebrum.
The March 2016 study, “Rule Learning Enhances Structural Plasticity of Long Range Axons in Frontal Cortex(link is external),” was published in the journal Nature Communications.
Read more from Psychology Today | March 7th, 2016: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-athletes-way/201603/how-does-your-brain-learn-through-trial-and-error