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You can learn:

• Why prediction errors are the engine of learning & why accepting mistakes is essential for growth.

• What actually defines motivation in the brain: how reward, cost, effort, & control are constantly being computed.

• How the brain acts as a prediction machine, maximizing value while minimizing energy and effort — which is why habits become so powerful.

• Why autistic cognition often prioritizes internal structure over external social signals, enabling deep focus, pattern recognition, & accelerated learning in rule-governed domains.

• How the brain’s “internal scoreboard” integrates reward, cost, emotion, & memory to guide decisions and actions.

Visual Thinking https://youtu.be/XqQ8jCvWzYc?si=hutSw81KCpA5mLVB

Visual Thinking https://youtu.be/Vw7XJLX3cX8?si=5IVi1YxuwcXZ4pki

Autism & Intuition https://youtu.be/9yRzZvsA8NQ?si=JOJTkCijUumFij0d

Basal Ganglia

Arkeypallidial cells https://youtu.be/XHZ_5HthUWs?si=z2CZyO-hF4z0cUPe

Go, No-Go https://youtu.be/hTW8CSPVEGc?si=JKdQzAYw950_siUL

Habits https://youtu.be/HBsku5G_SDM?si=O88KAdZNw7kI3OPI

Corollary Discharge https://youtu.be/ipZ6eLgpArA?si=6qL8Ili-aIAaLj6i

Salience Network https://youtu.be/ocE0__RrTjM?si=mRPXsTpyoeUqrjWe ‪

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0:00 Internal Calculators & Decision-Making

1:28 Prediction Error & Learning

5:00 Visual Input as the Model System

7:00 Attention Before Awareness

9:10 Autism & Sensory Precision

10:20 Orbitofrontal Cortex & State Inference

13:20 Pattern & details & Accelerated Learning

14:40 Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex: & Reward

17:20 The Insula & Cost, the Biology of Avoidance

20:05 Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex: Value, "Scoreboard"

25:05 Anterior Cingulate Cortex

28:40 Motivation, Action Selection, & Habits

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