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Learning Research
Learning does not necessarily scale proportionally with error
August 28th, 2006
Previous theories of learning have assumed that as humans learn from their mistakes, the size of learning naturally scales with the size of the mistake. But now biomedical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have shown that learning does not necessarily scale proportionally with error. In so doing, Kurt Thoroughman, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University, and his graduate student, Michael Fine, have discovered a new learning strategy they call categorical adaptation in which steps of learning are sensitive to the direction of error, but do not scale proportionally with the size of the error. Eventually, their findings...
Source: Mental Health Weekly Digest (2006-08-28)
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