It’s not the same “oh!” when you take a finger that the “oops!” when you make a mistake. What does the brain have to do with it?
It happens immediately. You realize you forgot to reserve the paddle court or… that you removed the grenade ring! (We may have gone too far with the example here.) But there are millions of common moments, “oops moments”. Now, a scientific team has revealed the brain mechanisms behind this function, and they have nothing to do with another of the most common expressions of the human being, the “ouch!”
Both are instantaneous expressions, which do not pass by reason, nor do you have time to think about them. However, for brain pain it is not the same as error, and automatically associates it with one expression or another.
Now they’ve just found the brain mechanisms of “oops!” The research was published in the journal Science, and interestingly, it reveals important data about a region of the brain that is essential for managing daily life, according to researchers at the Center for Neural Science and Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Angeles. Angels.
The researchers discovered how signals from a cluster of neurons in the brain’s frontal lobe give humans the flexibility to learn new tasks and the focus to develop highly specific skills. So far so good. But there are times when these tasks don’t go well. Then…
A sign that says you’ve done wrong
To get to oops!, what they found is that execution or performance control is an internal signal, a kind of self-generated feedback, it lets a person know they’ve made a mistake. If you don’t turn right in time, if you haven’t salted the mayonnaise, if… any mistake, throw the oops!
“That ‘oops!’ it’s performance control that comes into play,” emphasizes Zhongzheng Fu, another of the study’s authors.
These signals help improve performance on future tests by relaying information to areas of the brain that regulate emotions, memory, planning and problem solving.
That is, every time you say oops, you’re learning, you’re pointing out to your brain that this was a mistake, and that it’s best not to repeat it (especially if it’s the grenade ring).