[HN Gopher] Brain's Expectations Affect Learning
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       Brain's Expectations Affect Learning
        
       Author : laurex
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2020-04-19 18:54 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (psychcentral.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (psychcentral.com)
        
       | algon33 wrote:
       | Anyone have a link to the original paper?
        
         | schuetze wrote:
         | I went back through the press release sources and found that
         | it's actually based off of two recent papers:
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         | [1] https://academic.oup.com/cercor/advance-article-
         | abstract/doi...
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         | [2]
         | https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2020/03/30/JNEUROSCI...
        
       | mromanuk wrote:
       | > "The brain appears to be particularly active when a learning
       | strategy has to be changed while it takes significantly less
       | energy to maintain a strategy," Pleger noted
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       | What should we do, for better learning? Not have any particular
       | preference, and don't make a decision and force the brain to be
       | open to new strategies. I'm misreading this?
        
       | downerending wrote:
       | Was I the only one wondering who Brian was?
        
         | atlacatl_sv wrote:
         | i read Brian as well
        
         | stanislavb wrote:
         | No
        
       | alexfromapex wrote:
       | Isn't this essentially what backpropagation does in neural
       | networks?
        
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