Dopamine is a powerful signal in the brain, influencing our moods, motivations, movements, and more. The neurotransmitter is crucial for reward-based learning, a function that may be disrupted in a ...

Humans and most other animals are known to be strongly driven by expected rewards or adverse consequences. The process of ...

If you reward a monkey with some juice, it will learn which hand to move in response to a specific visual cue – but only if the cerebellum is functioning properly. So say neuroscientists at the ...

Research shows that reward-based learning requires the two neuromodulators to balance one another's influence -- like the accelerator and brakes on a car If you've heard of two of the brain's chemical ...

Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter known to modulate motivation and reinforcement learning. While the role of dopamine in ...

Changing levels of the brain protein KCC2 can alter how reward associations form, reshaping the learning process that links ...

Habits are hard to break. We all know this, whether we’ve failed our latest diet (again), or felt the repeated pull to refresh our Twitter feed instead of working on a project with a looming deadline.