Researchers find that the unexpected is a key to human learning

Monday, March 16, 2009 - 08:29 in Psychology & Sociology

The human brain's sensitivity to unexpected outcomes plays a fundamental role in the ability to adapt and learn new behaviours, according to a new study by a team of psychologists and neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania...

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