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Brain Region That Influences Gambling Decisions Pinpointed By Researchers

May 6, 2011 by

When a group of gamblers gather around a roulette table, individual players are likely to have different reasons for betting on certain numbers. Some may play a "lucky" number that has given them positive results in the past - a strategy called reinforcement learning. Others may check out the recent history of winning colors or numbers to try and decipher a pattern...

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