Errors serve as vital cues that indicate the need for change and open the neurological window for plasticity during skill acquisition.

“Errors actually queue the frontal cortex networks, what we call top-down processing, and the neuromodulators, things like dopamine and acetylcholine and epinephrine, that will allow for plasticity. So, these errors queue the brain that something was wrong, and they open up the possibility for plasti”