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Tags: AHA-Effekt | Evolutionär | Gehirn | Gehirnforschung | Hintergrundinformationen | Lust "The brain's reward for getting a concept is a shot of natural opiates
Neuroscientists have proposed a simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new concept: The brain is getting its fix.
The "click" of comprehension triggers a biochemical cascade that rewards the brain with a shot of natural opium-like substances, said Irving Biederman [...].
"While you're trying to understand a difficult theorem, it's not fun, [...] but once you get it, you just feel fabulous."
The brain's craving for a fix motivates humans to maximize the rate at which they absorb knowledge, he said.
"I think we're exquisitely tuned to this as if we're junkies, second by second."
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