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shared by anonymous on 03 Aug 09 - Cached

Brain cells may only learn from experience when we do something right and not when we fail.
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The study sheds light on the neural mechanisms linking environmental feedback to neural plasticity — the brain's ability to change in response to experience. It has implications for understanding how we learn, and understanding and treating learning disorders.
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The neural activity following a correct answer and a reward helped the monkeys do better on the trial that popped up a few seconds later.
- anonymous on 03 Aug 09
  
  So a reward needs to very quickly follow a correct response.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">So a reward needs to very quickly follow a correct response.</div>
  
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The prefrontal cortex orchestrates thoughts and actions in accordance with internal goals while the basal ganglia are associated with motor control, cognition and emotions. This work shows that these two brain areas, long suspected to play key roles in learning and memory, have full information available to them to do all the neural computations necessary for learning.
- anonymous on 03 Aug 09
  
  What if the connections are not working well?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">What if the connections are not working well?</div>
  
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