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The only thing surprising here is that people thought it worked any other way to begin with. Given that it's a reinforcement mechanism then it makes sense that it would be both spatially and temporally discrete.
And that's how it's been understood for decades. The article creates a silly and false premise.
science reporting continues to be garbage