Learning from feedback: The neural mechanisms of feedback processing facilitating better performance

Learning from feedback: The neural mechanisms of feedback processing facilitating better performance

How brain imaging can support more effective feedback.

Author(s): Caroline Di Bernardi Luft

Publisher: Behavioural Brain Research (vol. 261: p. 356-368)

Date of publication: 2014

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Summary

Beware, this is a challenging article… but a fascinating one! It presents research that employed brain imaging to decipher what takes place in our brains when we receive feedback. These studies show how factors such as motivation, attention or expectations influence our ability to take advantage of it—and why certain kinds of feedback are assimilated by their recipient, while others fail to have any effect.