Our Brains Learn From Mistakes and Can Track Performance
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Our ability to learn new things and adjust our approach based on failure and success can be credited to a multi-tasking group of neurons, or messenger cells in our brain, suggest the results of a series of new lab tests. The study findings, published this month in the journal Science, offer fresh insight into how our brain manages to track and adjust how we function in a wide variety of situations, whether it's trying new things or working to improve skills that aren't quite up to snuff.
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@plaban Scientists also found that neurons doing two types of performance tracking — general feedback that indicates something went wrong, and specific feedback that tells us exactly what happened — were both working together in the medial frontal cortex.