FeaturedPsychology·July 26, 2020·5 min readNarcissists Don’t Learn From Their Mistakes Because They Don’t Think They Make AnyWhen most people make errors, they are willing to learn from their mistakes. Those with narcissistic personality traits fail to acknowledge when they make mistakes and are thus unable to learn from errors they have made.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·April 28, 2020·4 min readHow mistakes help us recognize thingsContextual information, especially space and sequence, contributes to the distortion of perception in short-term memory.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·November 11, 2019·4 min readHow meditation can help you make fewer mistakesMindfulness and meditation can help reduce errors. The brain's ability to detect and pay attention to mistakes improves following one session of twenty-minute meditation.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceNeuroscience Videos·December 9, 2018·6 min readLearning From Mistakes: Neurons Which Catch Our Mistakes and Correct Our Behavior IdentifiedResearchers identified specific neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex, called self monitoring error neurons, that fire immediately after people make a mistake.Read More
FeaturedPsychology·August 3, 2018·5 min readOlder People Less Apt to Recognize They’ve Made a MistakeA new study reports older people are less likely to recognize they have made errors than younger people.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·December 8, 2015·3 min readWhy the Brain Makes MistakesThe brain makes mistakes because it applies incorrect inner beliefs about how the world works, new study reports.Read More
