Success is 20% knowledge and 80% behavior, and one of the most challenging tasks of leadership is turning intellectual knowledge into habitualbehavior.
Although the neural pathways that encode habitualbehavior appear to be located in deep brain structures known as the basal ganglia, it has been shown that the IL cortex is also necessary for such behaviors to develop.
To show that the behavior was habitual, the researchers eventually stopped giving the trained rats any rewards, and found that they continued running the maze flawlessly.