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TU17: The Biology of Motivation and Habits – Why We Drop the Ball

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You Get Her Late. Overlearning

Researchers were able to learn through a special technique to light up a certain area, the prefrontal cortex of the brain. When they stimulated that one area, the habit completely disappeared. But about a week later, what they do is they activate that same area at the infillimbit cortex and guess what happens? The habit comes immediately back. So it's like a non off switch. First time they hit it, it went off. The second time they hitIt, it went back on.

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