Samuel McClure – Temporal discounting

Neuroscientist Samuel McClure on why we violate our best intentions, ‘dual selves model’, and pathways in our brain that process decisions

[lilmoesk]

I think he meant to say that dopamine activity is in response to reward prediction errors, not the value of the reward itself. Minor difference but important, I think.

[ariannamichelini]

what's the name of this French Physician he is refering to?

[stearin]

So actually I didn't understand why but I'm going to eat chocolate cake...