{the dog blog of Outside magazine}
Why Positive Reinforcement Works
by Chance Googling | on August 24th, 2009 | in Media, Tidbits

A new study out from MIT suggests that brain cells can only learn from success and not failure. This might help to explain why dogs are capable of learning complex problem-solving from positive reinforcement drills, but not through avoidance.

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