Reward and Learning

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Reward and Learning

Posted by on Wednesday September 24, @10:47PM
from the skinner-meets-neurotransmitters dept.
This article from Brain Connection, talks about the connection between learning, reward and the underlying neuroscience. It focuses on Freud, behaviorism and the mystery of how dopemine may be tied to pleasure and reward in the brain.

Learning can cause dopamine responses to transfer from primary rewards (such as tuna fish to your cat) to reward-predicting stimuli (such as the sound of the can opener). This suggests that reward...may play a central role in how and why we are able to learn.

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Re: Reward and Learning
by on Thursday September 25, @02:01PM

On top of the ideas here, I've also read papers on the effects of repeated success or failure experiences on children; i.e. children that experience feelings of failure often tend to develope an expectaion of it and thus put forth less effort in the future, eventually leading to an indavidual who is very hard to motivate with tendencies toward clinical depression. And, of course, the inverse situation proves true as well. Alas, I do not know where to locate this paper.

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