Habits, Rituals, and the Evaluative Brain

Graybiel’s review of the neuroscience of habit: repeated action sequences are “chunked” by the basal ganglia — particularly the dorsolateral striatum — into units that run automatically, faster and with less effort than deliberate action. This, not myelin thickening, is the evidenced account of why habits are hard to break, and it’s the citation behind our corrected Synthesis passage.

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Also see Psychology of Habit