The researchers from the Department of Experimental Psychology, the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN) and the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, used an MRI scanner to observe changes in parts of the brain associated with learning and learned experiences while volunteers completed tasks that involved a reward.
Participants also attended two sessions prior to scanning to compare their individual associations between stimulus sequences and reward.
They found that the changes seen in the participants’ neural pathways associated with learning were different depending upon how each person had learned the new skill.
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