How To Learn From Your Excel Mistakes

The old adage that we "learn more from our mistakes" seems to have been proven wrong. New research now shows that our brain only learns from experience when we do something right. Studying monkeys, scientists gave the animals the task of looking at two alternating images on a computer screen. For one picture, the monkey was rewarded when it shifted its gaze to the right; for another it was similarly rewarded for looking the other way. The researchers found that by looking at monkeys' brain activity, it responded more positively to a correct answer. When they failed to get the right image however, there was little or no change in the brain, or any improvement in behaviour. It seems that although brain cells keep track of whether recent behaviours were successful or not, we learn quicker when we get things right.

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