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New Neurons in the Adult Brain Are Involved in Sensory Learning

Institut Pasteur and the CNRS

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Sientists demonstrated: new neurons produced in adults react preferentially to reward-related sensory stimuli and help speed up the association between sensory information and reward.

Adult-born neurons play an important role in the identification of a sensory stimulus and the positive value associated with that sensory experience.

The neurons generated shortly after birth are unable to perform this function.