Why mistakes sometimes build the brain, and sometimes don’t: how “failure” affects the brain
About this episode
This episode explores how mistakes impact brain activity and the cognitive processes involved in recognizing errors.
Within about 100 milliseconds of making a mistake, brains show a burst of electrical activity. Before a person consciously registers "I got that wrong," their error-monitoring systems have already flagged the mismatch between what they predicted and what actually happened.... READ MORE The post Why mistakes sometimes build the brain, and sometimes don’t: how “failure” affects the brain appeared first on StefanieFaye .
People in this episode
Host: Stefanie Faye
Topics covered
- mistakes
- brain activity
- failure
- error-monitoring
- cognitive science
Keywords
- mistakes
- brain
- failure
- cognitive processes
- error-monitoring
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