• Stephen Chew, psychology professor at Samford University, on Learning Strategies

• Dr. Michael Britt on Learning Strategies

• MedicalNewsToday.com: Older Brains Benefit From Learning By Trial And Error

Canadian researchers have found the first evidence that older brains get more benefit than younger brains from learning information the hard way - via trial-and-error learning. [...] The finding will surprise professional educators and cognitive rehabilitation clinicians as it challenges a large body of published science which has shown that making mistakes while learning information hurts memory performance for older adults, and that passive "errorless" learning (where the correct answer is provided) is better suited to older brains.

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