What is Learning?

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What would be apt to arouse the diffuse mode?

  • Dancing in a relaxed and free form manner, without concentrating on anything.

  • Tag along in the passenger seat of a car, looking absently out the window while someone else is driving.

What would be apt to arouse the focused mode?

  • Giving step-by-step directions for how to get to your friend's apartment, which you've been to several times before.

  • Calculating the tip for your waiter in a restaurant.

What is true about our current scientific understanding of the brain?

Or brains develop new neurons while we sleep, when we surround ourselves with stimulating environments and people - and when we exercise! Interestingly, even if we don't have a stimulating environment exercise still assists our brains in growing new neurons.
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What is true about the human brain?

  • Sleeping helps the brain form new synapses (neural connections).
  • Brain connectivity can change.
  • Adult brains can form new synapses.
  • Brain connectivity is dynamic (that is, it changes), not static.

What is true about memory?

  • Repeat something twenty times over several days.
  • Repetition is needed so your metabolic vampires—natural dissipating processes—don’t suck the memories away.

Long term memory is like a storage warehouse. Your working memory is equated to an inefficient mental blackboard as it can only hold a few things in mind, and those things can easily fall out.

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