Reward Elicits Unconscious Learning In Humans

Reward Elicits Unconscious Learning In Humans

Science Daily
Reward Elicits Unconscious Learning In Humans
ScienceDaily (Mar. 11, 2009)

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These results suggest that automatic reinforcement mechanisms (such as those released at times of reward), rather than directed attention, determine improvements in sensory skills.

"Our findings support the suggestion that visual skill learning is generally an unconscious process and that goal-directed factors, such as directed attention, serve mostly to bias how learning takes place rather than actually gating the learning process," hypothesizes Dr. Seitz. The authors are careful to acknowledge that future studies are required.

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