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<br>In 1954, two researchers at Canada's McGill College by chance discovered how humans be taught to repeat habits that's helpful to our survival. An electrode implanted in the brain of a rat had slipped from its intended place and had come to relaxation on the medial forebrain bundle, a bunch of nerve cells that leads from deep in the mind to the prefrontal cortex. Upon delivering a sequence of electrical shocks to the electrode, the rat displayed a eager curiosity in the area of its field it had been exploring when it obtained the first jolt. Upon further investigation, Olds and Milner realized that what they'd discovered was the mind's reward heart, a system of areas associated with delivering a way of pleasure in return for certain behaviors like consuming and mating. This discovery was revolutionary
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