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A new study from experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Picower Institute for Learning and Memory shows that we may have more to learn from our successes than from our failures. The new research, conducted on monkeys, revealed that neurons in the brain involved in learning became a lot more fine-tuned after a success than after a mishap. The scientists infer that this type of associations is a tool of evolution, which ultimately leads to an improvement in behavior. In the experiments, monkeys were trained to look right or left, depending on what type of images they saw on a computer screen. Whenever they got the “answer†right, they were rewarded. The science team says that this led to a much higher improvement in success rates, than if they were to be punished for not looking in the correct direction. The monkeys learned how to respond to the images â€" which flashed for a few seconds â€" by trial and error, the experts say. The team was led by re!
searcher Earl K. Miller, LiveScience reports. The neurons that the experts focused on were located in the prefrontal cortex and the basal ganglia, as they have been associated with playing an important role in learning in previous studies. Miller says that they indeed “keep track of recent successes and failu...
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