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Boston Globe: Why success may breed success

Source: Uinta County News

Washington : DC : USA | 4 months ago

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We might not learn from our mistakes after all, according to new research from scientists at MIT. In experiments that give a snapshot of the learning process in the brain, they found that getting the correct answer to a challenge meant doing better on the next one.

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