White Board Series (Audio): Autism & Motivation: The Brain’s Internal Calculators
About this episode
This episode explores the relationship between autism and motivation, focusing on how the brain processes reward, cost, and effort.
Video: https://youtu.be/uKa3wzpRoxQ You can learn: • Why prediction errors are the engine of learning & why accepting mistakes is essential for growth. • What actually defines motivation in the brain: how reward, cost, effort, & control are constantly being computed. • How the brain acts as a prediction machine, maximizing value while minimizing energy and effort — which is why habits become so powerful. • Why autistic cognition often prioritizes internal structure over external social signals, enabling deep focus, pattern recognition, & accelerated learning in rule-governed domains. • How the brain’s “internal scoreboard” integrates reward, cost, emotion, & memory to guide decisions and actions. Visual Thinking https://youtu.be/XqQ8jCvWzYc?si=hutSw81KCpA5mLVB Visual Thinking https://youtu.be/Vw7XJLX3cX8?si=5IVi1YxuwcXZ4pki Autism & Intuition https://youtu.be/9yRzZvsA8NQ?si=JOJTkCijUumFij0d Basal Ganglia Arkeypallidial cells https://youtu.be/XHZ_5HthUWs?si=z2CZyO-hF4z0cUPe Go, No-Go https://youtu.be/hTW8CSPVEGc?si=JKdQzAYw950_siUL Habits https://youtu.be/HBsku5G_SDM?si=O88KAdZNw7kI3OPI Corollary Discharge https://youtu.be/ipZ6eLgpArA?si=6qL8Ili-aIAaLj6i…
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