You often make the same mistake twice,you
are distressed.The following research from mailonline maybe can ease you:
Some
people will never learn – and now scientists think they know why. People who
keep repeating the same mistakes have less active brains.
The
study at Goldsmiths, University of London, is one of the first to try and work
out why some people are better at learning from their mistakes than others.
The
team studied whether participants were able to listen to feedback and improve
their performance on a series of tests.
They
found that the results varied significantly.
The
research, led by Professor Joydeep Bhattacharya in the Department of Psychology
at Goldsmiths, examined what it is about the brain that defines someone as a
'good learner' from those who do not learn from their mistakes.
'We
are always told how important it is to learn from our errors, our experiences,
but is this true?,' he said.
'If
so, then why do we all not learn from our experiences in the same way? It seems
some people rarely do, even when they were informed of their errors in repeated
attempts.
'This
study presents a first tantalising insight into how our brain processes the
performance feedback and what it does with this information, whether to learn
from it or to brush it aside.'
The
study, published in a recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, investigated
brainwave patterns of 36 healthy human volunteers performing a simple time
estimation task.
Researchers
asked the participants to estimate a time interval of 1.7 seconds and provided
feedback on their errors.
The
participants were then measured to see whether they incorporated the feedback
to improve their future performances.
'Good
learners', who were successful in incorporating the feedback information in
adjusting their future performance, presented increased brain responses as fast
as 200 milliseconds after the feedback on their performance was presented on a
computer screen.
This
brain response was weaker in the poor learners who did not learn the task well
and who showed decreased responses to their performance errors.
The
researchers further found that the good learners showed increased communication
between brain areas involved with performance monitoring and some motor
processes.
Caroline
Di Bernardi Luft, one of the research paper's co-authors from the Federal
University of Santa Catarina, commented: 'Good learners used the feedback not
only to check their past performance, but also to adjust their next performance
accordingly.'
The
brain responses correlated highly with how well the volunteers learned this
simple task over the course of the experiment, and how good they were at
maintaining the learned skill without any guiding feedback.
'Though
these results are very encouraging in establishing a correlation between brains
responses and learning performance, future studies are needed to identify a
causal role of these effects,' Professor Bhattacharya added.
So you needn’t to be distressed,it is your
brain decided.Haw,Haw!