Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones · chapter 3 · id atomic-habits-c3-03-the-neuroscience-of-habits-inv
“The neuroscience of habits involves the basal ganglia automating repeated behaviors, shifting from deliberate to automatic processing.”
holdsconfidence: high⚠ extracted by pipeline, re-audit pending
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Berridge 2009 / Schultz dopamine prediction errorsDOI registry: valid
Dopamine signaling shifts from reward receipt to reward anticipation as learning progresses. Basal ganglia chunks behavior into automatic sequences with bracketing activity at start/end.
Wood & Neal 2007, Psychological ReviewDOI registry: valid
Habitual responses are triggered by stable context cues and proceed with minimal conscious awareness, consistent with basal ganglia automaticity.
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