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Oh, rats! Post-error behavioral adjustment in creatures great and small

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Errors are typically followed by more cautious responses. A study now provides evidence that remarkably conserved neural dynamics underlie these post-error adjustments to behavior in rodents and humans.

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Figure 1: Post-error slowing.

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  1. Christopher Summerfield and Nick Yeung are in the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,

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