Study Reveals Why We Learn From Mistakes


	Study Reveals Why We Learn From Mistakes

wildcat

7-2-2007 5:56 AM

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7-4-2007 11:50 PM

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* Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892,

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Researchers have pinpointed an area in the brain that alerts us in less than a second of an impending mistake so we don’t repeat it. 
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Scientists have long known that mistakes are conducive to <A href="http://www.livescience.com/health/050727_learning_habit.html">learning</A>, suggesting the reason lies in the element of surprise upon finding out we are wrong. But how the <A href="http://www.livescience.com/mind/">brain</A> manages to learn from mistakes and how quickly it does so have been unknowns. 
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“It's a bit of a cliché to say that we learn more from our mistakes than our successes,” said lead author of the study Andy Wills, a psychologist at the University of Exeter, “but for the first time we’ve established just how quickly the brain works to help us avoid repeating errors.” 
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The scientists monitored the brain activity of a group of volunteers as they made predictions based on information each read on a computer screen. Then, they were given new information that made many of the predictions incorrect. The participants had to learn from the mistake in order to repeat the error next time around. 
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