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Thomas Galvez

The unexpected creates reward when listening to music | Channels - McGill University - 0 views

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shared by Thomas Galvez on 12 Sep 19 - No Cached
  • Using an algorithm, the researchers then determined the reward prediction error for each choice
  • Subjects whose reward prediction errors most closely matched activity in the nucleus accubens also showed the most progress in learning the choices that led to the consonant tones
  • “Our results demonstrate that musical events can elicit formally-modeled reward prediction errors like those observed for concrete rewards such as food or money, and that these signals support learning. This implies that predictive processing might play a much wider role in reward and pleasure than previously realized.”
Thomas Galvez

What Babies Know About Physics and Foreign Languages - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Thomas Galvez on 31 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • When children think they are being taught, they are much more likely to simply reproduce what the adult does, instead of creating something new.
  • the new information economy, as opposed to the older industrial one, demands more innovation and less imitation, more creativity and less conformity.
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