How Your Brain Works

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September 9, 2019 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: What is Learning?

LEARNING is… a change in how you act, think, or feelas a result of some kind of experience. learn more… The Learning Mystique

August 11, 2019 How Your Brain Works / The Basics

Learning Goals Isn’t it curious (and so very unfortunate) that we all go to school for years and years without ever learning how our brain, the very organ that we are trying to change in the process, works? It is no wonder that piano lessons (and education in general) are often synonymous with drudgery and frustration.

October 16, 2016 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: The Power of Patterns: A Memory Challenge

In order to illustrate the amazing power of patterns, let’s try a fun little memory challenge in four parts… Part 1. Memorize the following letter/symbol pairs… Give yourself about 30 seconds to do so, then scroll down to Part 2… | | | | | | | | | | | | Part 2. Count backwards

October 16, 2016 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Blossom’s Dance

I would like to close the series on How Your Brain Works on an inspiring and uplifting note by inviting you to enjoy the video below… an illuminating and heartwarming lesson in mind, beauty, and the power of music shared by my dear friend and guitarist Bill Stubblefield… learn more… How to Study-Practice

October 16, 2016 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: The Role of Emotion in Learning & Performance

In order to maximize learning, the students stress level needs to be “just right”… both in terms of type of stress and amount of stress. Stress can induce significant physical, cognitive, and emotional changes that can have either a positive or a negative effect on learning and performance. Common bad stressors include rewards for performing well

October 16, 2016 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: State-Dependent Learning

Did you know? That you remember knowledge and skills better when you study and practice them under the same conditions that you expect to perform them? This insight is particularly important when preparing to perform under pressure. Such conditions may include your location, the time of day, your state of mind, your state of health, the

October 16, 2016 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Habits

Every thought, belief, and action that you repeat over and over turns into a habit… an unconscious, automatic behavior. Habits are stored in long-term memory. Long-term memories can be permanent, so we need to be very careful what we store there. Whether your thoughts, beliefs, and actions are useful or not, you deeply and unconsciously remember what

October 16, 2016 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: The Power of Patterns

Your brain is a natural seeker, recognizer, discriminator, assimilator, interpreter, relater, combiner, connector, and creator of PATTERNS. Your brain loves patterns and hates randomness. For example: “!nkcsrveeeoo htB” is no fun to read because it’s just an apparent jumble of random symbols with no apparent meaning. “Beethoven rocks!” is fun to read because it contains recognizable

October 16, 2016 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Recognition & Recall

Recall is a much tougher memory task than recognition, as illustrated by two everyday examples: It is easier to remember someone’s face than to remember someone’s name. This is because you recognize a face, but you have to recall a name. Reciting something by heart is tougher than reading something out loud. This is because you have