Study identifies cells that learn from errors inside the human brain

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Australian magazine Cosmos has revealed the presence of cells inside the human brain that determine performance monitoring and learning from mistakes.

The magazine quoted the scientists who conducted the study as saying: “The human brain produces an internal signal that tells him he made a mistake, and this signal gives humans the opportunity to correct their mistakes and learn new tasks.”

A recent study published in the journal Science also found neurons responsible for detecting errors and learning from them. The study led by neuroscientists said: "Neurons in the brain's medial frontal cortex (the prefrontal cortex) are responsible for these internal signals."

“Part of the magic of the human brain is that it is so flexible,” said lead author of the study Yuli Rötesauzer, professor of neurosurgery, neuroscience and biomedical sciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the United States. “We completed our study to decode how the brain can do two things in At the same time, that is, noticing the mistake and learning from it.

He explained, "We recorded the activity of more than a thousand neurons in the medial frontal cortex of the brain during human complex cognitive tasks," noting that "the neurons send these internal signals to improve handling and help the brain adjust its focus in the future."

A person encounters in his daily life many situations in which he knows belatedly that he has made a mistake that he should have avoided, a phenomenon known as “performance monitoring”.

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