TL:DR... It's recursive - we pay attention to the things that affect us, and that attention reinforces what we should focus on the next time. Nice that someone

TL:DR... It's recursive - we pay attention to the things that affect us, and that attention reinforces what we should focus on the next time. Nice that someone was able to show this. Might be obvious, but proving obvious things experimentally with the brain often is difficult. On the downside, that means I'm just a wet neural net. Oh well.