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Pilot of My Soul

Posted by timothy on from the like-to-settle-down-with-a-nice-dopamine dept.

nickynicky9doors writes "The International Herald Tribune has an article on one of the recent advances in neuroscience. The article harkens back to Freud and suggests many of our actions are unconscious. Brain circuits involved in reward assesment process dopamine as a chemical signal. It is thought human dopamine-based reward assesment includes sending dopamine signals to the frontal cortex. Beginning in our earliest years the system informs our expectations and our reactions."

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  1. The Connection to Learning by Zelet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This has been used in Physics classes for a long time. The Prof performs an experiment, you "know" what is going to happen until it does. This wakes you up and makes you sit up in your chair. This unexpected event gets burned into your brain. Seems like this is the reason. How many of you really learned or payed attention in class when everything is just what you expected?

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