TWiN 40: Dopamine organizes behavior's syllables
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Dopamine and Certitude
Dopamine and certainty was actually a previous twin where I talked about whether dopamine causes you to hallucinate when you're overconfident, even though there's nothing going on. But that was like at the very tail of the stratum. So what they did was they correlate, so they ask a question. Why is dopamine having such a huge, you know, variety of signal, even to the same behavior module? And they found it would increase the probability of you doing the same behavioral syllable again for about roughly 80 syllables if that makes sense.
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