Errors not only train the brain to better perform a specific task, but they also teach it how to learn faster from errors.

The brain can generalize from one task to another by keeping a memory of the errors, the findings showed.

"In learning a new motor task, two processes happen at once," said Reza Shadmehr, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in US.



"In effect, this second process leaves a memory of the errors that were experienced during the training, so the re-experience of those errors makes the learning go faster," Shadmehr explained.

The study appeared in the journal Science Express.

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