Simple Reward-Based Learning Suits Adolescents Best (IMAGE)

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Simple Reward-Based Learning Suits Adolescents Best

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Adolescents focus on rewards and are less able to learn to avoid punishment or consider the consequences of alternative actions, finds a new UCL-led study. The study, published in PLOS Computational Biology, compared how adolescents and adults learn to make choices based on the available information.

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