A Systematic Review of the Literature Linking Neural Correlates of Feedback Processing to Learning
Abstract
Abstract. Learning from errors and feedback is an important topic in the Education Sciences as it relates as much to student achievement, teacher development, and learning in general. Its ramifications connect with reflective practice, inhibition of spontaneous and erroneous answers, conceptual change, self-regulated learning, assessment, and metacognition. Research in education has studied the use of feedback from different perspectives (e.g., cognitivism, behaviorism, socioculturalism, constructivism) but has rarely considered the way the brain processes feedback for learning. Therefore, this article reviews the scientific literature linking neural correlates of feedback processing to general or specific learning outcomes, published from 2005 to 2015. From a total of 229 search results, 30 scientific publications were selected according to predefined selection criteria.
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