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How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
Semantic memory: Memories do not seem to stay in the hippocampus forever. At night, the brain plays them back and moves them to a new location within the cortex. There, they are transformed into permanent knowledge: our brain extracts the information present in the experiences we lived through, generalizes it, and integrates it into our vast librar
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Moi Jamri added 2mo ago
They store each episode through synaptic changes, so we can remember it later.
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Moi Jamri added 2mo ago
The good side of things is that, because our circuits freeze up, we get to keep, for our entire lives, a stable, unconscious synaptic trace of what we learned as children.
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Moi Jamri added 2mo ago
while the grammar and sounds of language freeze, other functions such as the capacity to learn new words and their meanings remain open throughout life.
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Moi Jamri added 2mo ago
brain plasticity for grammar learning seems to drastically shrink at the end of puberty
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This classic effect (which is even more striking when the words are printed in color) reflects the intervention of your executive control system. When the words and colors conflict, the central executive must inhibit word reading to remain focused on the task of naming the ink color.
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And this is perhaps the worst effect of discovery learning: it leaves students under the illusion that they have mastered a certain topic, without ever giving them the means to access the deeper concepts of a discipline.
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First, children may lose their curiosity because they lack cognitive stimulation tailored to their needs.
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what matters most is to restore their desire to learn by offering them stimulating problems carefully tailored to their current level.
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