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Making the causal link: frontal cortex activity and repetition priming

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Object identification improves with repeated presentation, but neural activity decreases. In a new study, disrupting inferior frontal activity with transcranial magnetic stimulation during initial exposure to an object blocks later behavioral and neural changes.

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Figure 1: Summary of the neuroimaging findings.

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