Category Archives: 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… Advertisements
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.
How Your Brain Works: State-Dependent Learning
In a nutshell, you remember knowledge and skills better when you study them in the same environment and under the same conditions that you expect to perform them. This could include your location, the time of day, your state of … Continue reading
How Your Brain Works: Habits
Every thought, belief, and action that you repeat over and over turns into a habit… an unconscious, automatic behavior.
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.
How Your Brain Works: Recognition & Recall
Recall is a much tougher memory task than recognition, as illustrated by two everyday examples:
How Your Brain Works: Consolidation
Consolidation is the process by which short-term memories are transformed into long-term memories.
How Your Brain Works: Chunking, Automization, & Practice
A major goal of studying music is to turn several disconnected pieces of information or behaviors into one unified, meaningful idea or behavior. Such integration of many parts into integrated wholes is called chunking.
How Your Brain Works: Memory Aids
Ready for a crazy obvious statement? The best way to remember something is to make it memorable!
How Your Brain Works: Why We Forget
The primary reason that most of us “forget” something is that we never really learned that something in the first place. And the reason we did not learn is that we did not study the right things or we studied the … Continue reading
