I want to know- can I use this principle to reward myself so I can learn a foreign language faster? Huge pieces of chocolate after each word remembered correctly doesn’t seem like a great long-term idea.
Mara Mather
Y'all I spent YEARS of my life putting mice in little cages and giving them tiny little treats, took a solid month to train...
...and it turns out that no one ever checked if a BIG TREAT might work better. www.hhmi.org/news/bigger-...
YEARS OF MY LIFE.
Via the excellent @science.org newsletter.
Researchers in the Dudman Lab at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus found that learning happens faster when there’s a bigger payoff for success, potentially changing how neuroscientists think about learni...
