Our human brain doesn't like to make mistakes and works quickly to avoid making them again, according to a new experiment.
In just 1 second, the brain can differentiate between outcomes caused by real human error and those not directly caused by a person.
A new experiment dives deeply into that topic to understand how our brain does it.
How it works
If the brain sees an error, it takes extra time to process it and inform the body to prevent doing them again.
The specialists conducted the study by having 76 young adults respond to a task involving arrows, where a surprise symbol occasionally appeared even when they answered correctly.
They discovered that the brain can distinguish between expected and surprise outcomes after about one second.
If the outcome is due to human error, the brain stays active for an additional two to three seconds, indicating a recognition of the mistake and a desire to learn from it.
The study, utilizing scalp electroencephalograms to measure brain waves, highlights that the brain has genuine error-specific systems and gives information related to outcomes with the rest of the body.
