1. Describe the Habit Loop in the rat experiment. Be clear and specific.

In Chapter One, we learn that the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department and MIT houses structures that resemble miniature surgical theaters. Here, researchers perform procedures on rat-brains that allow them to learn more about habit formations. They test these rats on mazes to discover that mental activity associated with habit formation decreases each time these mazes. This is possible because of the activity in the basal ganglia. This structure resides within the brain, and undergoes a very complicated procedure which allows us to form habits, freeing up the use of the brain for other functions.