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‘Winner effect’ linked to changes in brain circuitry, UW study finds

The next time the Brewers go on a road-trip skid, it might not be their fault.The “winner effect,” in which animals that win a competition win subsequent ones, occurs because of changes in their brain?s circuitry. Those changes are even stronger if the animal had a home-field advantage, according to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.