Novel dopamine pathways underlying motivated behaviours

每天都在寻求食物、性和社交媒体等奖励。奖赏加工行为学习记忆的神经心理学基础。该项目绘制了两个新的大脑区域在奖励处理过程中的真实的神经活动。它有可能彻底改变对奖励处理中大脑机制的理解。所获得的生物数据可以直接集成到计算建模方法中，以利于奖励处理算法用于人类或人工智能的学习行为。该项目将促进对推动社交媒体平台和消费者消费的算法的理解，从而推动澳大利亚的经济和技术进步。

Rewards such as food, sex and social media are seeked on daily basis. Neurological and psychological basis of learning and memory of reward processing behaviour. This project maps real time neural activity during reward processing in two novel brain regions. It has the potential to revolutionize the understanding of the brain mechanisms in reward processing. The biological data obtained can be directly integrated into computational modelling approaches to benefit reward processing algorithms for learning behaviours in humans or artificial intelligence. This project will fuel the understanding of algorithms driving social media platforms and consumer consumption, hence driving economic and technological progress in Australia.