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The neuroscientist decoding how the brain learns

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In this episode, host Rachel Feltman interviews neuroscientist Kauê M. Costa, who is among Scientific American’s inaugural cohort of Young American Scientists honorees. Costa shares how being surprised by experiments has led him to new ways of thinking about learning in the brain. He explains how dopamine does more than signal reward, how there are two big frameworks of how the brain learns and how his findings could help us better understand—and treat—mental illness. Recommended Reading: The Young American Scientists Kauê M. Costa’s Young American Scientists profile Join our Summer…

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