What Our Brains Want - with Ray Dolan, Wolfram Schultz and Peter Dayan

Published: Dec. 22, 2017, 12:05 p.m.

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Our sense of reward motivates us and is essential for survival, so when the system malfunctions, it can lead to big problems. This month, Ray Dolan, Wolfram Schultz and Peter Dayan, winners of the 2017 Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize, discuss their ground-breaking work on how the brain recognises and processes reward with Claudia Hammond.

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