Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Getting things right!

In yet another example of how you humans learn from us monkeys. Results from a new experiment from MIT challenges the old saying that people learn from their mistakes. This was published in the July 30th issue of Neuron.

In the experiments scientists looked at monkeys brains while they tested them, and it showed that their brain actually changed when they got something right and nothing changed when they got things wrong.

So "only after successes, not failures, did brain processing and the monkeys' behavior improve."

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