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The Feedback Of Learning In The Striatum

There are different kinds of feedback we get from the outside world when it comes to learning.

The Feedback Of Learning In The Striatum
One question that people might have when it comes to clinical neuroscience of reward based feedback learning in the Striatum is how PTSD impacts the learning from reward to punishment. Positive and negative feedback will each have their own effect on the person and some people are more susceptible to one, or the other. Aristotle once asked the question about how we make associations in our mind. Learning is a process of change as we experience the world.

Key takeaways

  1. An imaging study talked about the difference between negative and positive feedback in the brain.
  2. People who developed impulse control disorders had a higher reward learning on DA agonists.
  3. In the PTSD feedback, healthy subjects learned well from both positive and negative feedback.

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Laura Lurns · Learning Success expert Writes about the learning brain for parents who want plain answers. Every article is grounded in current neuroscience and classroom practice.