Blamed brain (IMAGE)

University of Iowa

Blamed brain

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University of Iowa researchers have found that the human brain can distinguish between an outcome caused by human error and one in which the person’s decision-making is blameless. The brain takes just one second to separate the outcomes, and in cases involving human error, extra time to catalog the mistake. 

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Tim Schoon, University of Iowa

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