‘Make more mistakes,’ says URI Visiting Scholar

“How and why you make mistakes (and why you should make more of them),” will be the focus when Michael X. Cohen, associate professor of neuroscience, from Radboud University in the Netherlands visits the University of Rhode Island from April 8 through 12, as part of URI’s Distinguished Visiting International Scholars program. According to Cohen, making mistakes is one of the most important cognitive functions of the brain – second only to learning from them.

Cohen will discuss the importance of mistakes during a free lecture Monday, April 8, at 5:30 p.m., at the Richard E. Beaupre Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences, Room 100, 140 Flagg Road on the Kingston Campus. Cohen’s public lecture aims to provide an approachable overview of the neuroscience of making and correcting mistakes, as well as the important challenges facing this area of neuro-scientific research over the…