Canadian researchers have found the first evidence that older brains get more benefit than younger brains from learning information the hard way - via trial-and-error learning.
The study was led by scientists at Baycrest's world-renowned Rotman Research Institute in Toronto and appears online in the journal Psychology and Aging, ahead of the print edition.
The finding will surprise professional educators and cognitive rehabilitation clinicians as it challenges a large body of published science which has shown that making mistakes while learning information hurts memory performance for older adults, and that passive "errorless" learning (where the correct answer is provided) is better suited to older brains. Read full:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/233314.php
The study was led by scientists at Baycrest's world-renowned Rotman Research Institute in Toronto and appears online in the journal Psychology and Aging, ahead of the print edition.
The finding will surprise professional educators and cognitive rehabilitation clinicians as it challenges a large body of published science which has shown that making mistakes while learning information hurts memory performance for older adults, and that passive "errorless" learning (where the correct answer is provided) is better suited to older brains. Read full:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/233314.php
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