How to pronounce “striatum” in English

And it turns out that the same pretty primitive brain system that we share with reptiles and most other animalsthat can walk, the ventral striatum, the region shown in fire here-- this is a region that we've known for years and years responds when people in the scannerwin money, when they get to eat something that's delicious, when they look at pictures of pretty people.

I'm sure some of you know that.And people who have a prolonged pornography habit have a very shrunken striatum because it takes more and more extreme pornography to please that part of your brain which gives you pleasure.Yes, so what are we, 15 years, should we say, into a digital millennium?

But that is not what happens in the prisoner's dilemma.In the prisoner's dilemma, you get the most activity in the ventral striatum when you play communally.So this is a case-- this is a different kind of social reward.

Why da, da, da?In particular, what counts is the neurons in our cerebral cortex, and in the striatum.