Learning Models and Empowerment ... the cognitive and neural changes characterizing addiction are unique and pathologic. Some theories highlight distinct phases or stages: drug taking is driven ...

But in this theory, the environment plays a large part in learning. We model the behavior of the people around us, especially if we find these models similar to ourselves or if we want to emulate ...

In the past two decades, research has increasingly supported the view that addiction is a disease of the brain. Although the brain disease model of ... of motivational learning, the greater ...

Although each theory highlights different aspects of drug addiction and different ... constitutes a teaching signal for learning correct predictions. Model-free learning and cached values.

Effective learning ... two academic theories got me thinking. The critical interplay between difficulty and cognitive load seems ripe to explore in the context of Large Language Models (LLMs ...

Professor Marc Lewis, a developmental neuroscientist, challenges the prevailing theory ... that addiction – or dependence, as we would call it in Australia – is the result of "deep learning ...

This discovery is cause to rethink treatment for psychiatric disease and addiction ... in learning and memory is more complex than that, but we did not have a complete and accurate theory that ...

Almost no one is calling for entirely scrapping the disease model ... mental health and learning disorders, bullying or loneliness. Generations of family addiction further tip the scales toward ...