Physiology 4700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Striatum, Mesocortical Pathway, Nigrostriatal Pathway
22 Apr 2019
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Describe some of the behavioural tasks used to model real world decision making in human and non-human subjects. Describe how reversal learning, prediction error signaling and reinforcement value encoding support decision making. Describe how decision making studies have been applied to further the understanding of addiction and frontotemporal dementia. Marshmallow test: put children in room and put marshmallow in front of them saying i"m leaving room, feel free to eat marshmallow, but if you wait and not eat it, then ill give you two marshmallows. Marshmallow test is correlated to later life success: whether you passed the test, or how long it takes you before you start eating the marshmallow is correlated with later life success. But enough evidence in support of marshmellow test: measures of adolescent success (correlations range from . 30 to . 50, correlated with sat quantitative performance r = . 57. Test didn"t account for socioeconomics and the fact that people could have came in hungry.
