Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis discovered an interesting new learning strategy they call categorical adaptation.
If you make a movement error in one direction, in makes sense that your next movement would correct toward the opposite direction, in exact proportion to the error. An example would be a pitcher correcting to the right, after missing home plate to the left with a 
pitch.
The results were published in the August 2006 issue of the Journal of Neurophysiology. Dr. Thoroughman said the discovery raises interesting new questions in motor learning and in neurophysiology.
The study concluded that … "By changing environments in a specific way and by not providing the same environment all of the time, we can change the way that people learn."
Hmmm… it seems to me that an obvious application to add more brainpower at work … might be to change the work environment at times -- so that people can adapt their learning patterns in ways that improve productivity. Is that your take?
The environment is very important in all moments of our life, no matter if, we are at work or at home or any elsewhere. Once your brain accommodate with some conditions it will react depending on them. If something is changed then you will have different reactions. The effect will be better or worse depending on the changing. To test the productivity improvement by making transformations at work place this conclusion could be used.
Posted by: Lucy | August 8, 2006 1:48 PM | Permalink to Comment