The elderly can benefit from baby movements

Researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University have found that older adults use the same exploration-exploitation mechanism that babies use to successfully grasp objects.  And as with babies, making “mistakes” helps improve future task performance.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/older-adults-could-use-babies-strategy-to-grasp-objects-israeli-study/

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