Using pupil dilation, eye-blink rate, and the value of mother to investigate reward learning mechanisms in infancy

The brain is adapted to learn from interactions with the environment that predict or enable the procurement of rewards (Schultz, 2010). For infants, the main caregiver (often the mother) is most associated with primary biological rewards such as food and warmth, as well as the most likely provider o...

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Main Authors: Kristen Tummeltshammer, Estée C.H. Feldman, Dima Amso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-04-01
Series:Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929318301002