Neural Mechanisms & Learning

knowledge from the past predicts behaviour causing adaptive behaviour

acquisition of info, memory retention of info

memory gets better with more, law of diminishing returns

amount learned proportional to amount of surprise at outcome

outcome fully predicted= no learning

in human and monkey brains

artificially creating prediction errors during blocking

Arc protein

doesn’t impair STM but does impair LTM

epilepsy treatment around BDNF

exist in the brain and appear to regulate learning