Andrew Huberman· PhD
genuine curiosity significantly ramps up levels of neural activity in human brain circuits that release dopamine, which in turn allows deeper, more stable learning.
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
genuine curiosity significantly ramps up levels of neural activity in human brain circuits that release dopamine, which in turn allows deeper, more stable learning.
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Curiosity however, is something we can all leverage.
The more Curious people are like on a one to six scale the more activity you see it's just like this beautiful relationship right and it's not driven by the answer
so when people ask me and they ask me a lot yes how best to elevate their brain dopamine one reasonable answer based on this study is curiosity to engage curiosity
and so when we look at functional MRI we can't measure dopamine but what we see is activity in the dopaminergic midbrain area meaning the area of the brain around the midbrain and you see it in the nucleus accumbens or What's called the ventral stratum which is another area that's super high dopamine reward processing area
the theory that we have is when you get that bump in dopamine activity You're motivated you're energized to get the answer and you're driven towards the state of plasticity and now I'm giving you something has nothing to do with this question