Why We Don’t Always Learn From Our Mistakes

If you are struggling to retrieve a word that you are certain is on the tip of your tongue, or trying to perfect a slapshot that will send your puck flying into a hockey net, or if you keep stumbling over the same sequence of notes on the piano, be warned: you might be unconsciously creating a pattern of failure, a new study reveals.The research appears in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

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Filed under: Neurology / Neuroscience on April 2nd, 2008