Learning From Your Mistakes Means You Learn More, Faster

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In the excellent blog The Frontal Cortex, Jonah Lehrer offers his take on a couple of recent studies about how a person’s reaction to mistakes, and subsequent feedback about the mistakes, affect the learning process. The findings might interest you, especially if you are a parent with school-aged children. One recent study focused on why [...]

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Posted October 4, 2011 by Marghi Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies

NUMMI Closes… The Employees’ Ability to Learn Will Help Them Move Forward

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NUMMI shut down last week after nearly 30 years with GM and Toyota pulling out… the employees have constantly been learning and adapting, serving as role models for the rest of us

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Posted April 9, 2010 by Steven Aldrich under Brain plasticity, Odds and Ends

Bilingualism and Brain Plasticity

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I recently returned from a 3 week trip to the Middle East. In preparation, I took Arabic lessons for about 6 months, in hopes that it might aid my communication on my trip. I am bilingual in English and Spanish, and was surprised to find that learning Arabic was a great deal more challenging than [...]

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Posted November 16, 2009 by Karen Merzenich under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, Brain plasticity