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Small aside on a personal pet peeve. "dopamine hit" is not really a thing. Dopamine in the reward system tracks the difference between the reward we expect and
by jonnycomputer 3y ago
Small aside on a personal pet peeve. "dopamine hit" is not really a thing. Dopamine in the reward system tracks the difference between the reward we expect and the reward we get (i.e. the prediction error).
- HWR_14 3y agoThis is the first I'm hearing about that. Interesting!
- jonnycomputer 3y agohttps://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(17)30266-X.pdf https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(17)30266...
- TaupeRanger 3y agoNo, that's just one of many "theories" about how this particular biochemical works, but it is not in any way a proven fact since we don't really know how the brain works in the first place, only what it looks like under certain conditions. "Dopamine hit" absolutely IS a thing though, because that term just refers to the fact that when dopamine producing areas of the brain light up in fMRI scans, people report feelings of pleasure. That's really all it means.
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