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Category Archive: How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Blossom’s Dance

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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…

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2010-03-25 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: The Role of Emotion in Learning

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In order to maximize learning, the student’s stress level needs to be in the Goldilocks zone! (“just right”)…

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2010-03-24 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: State-Dependent Learning

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Did you know… that you remember things better when you study and practice them under the same conditions that you expect to perform them?

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2010-03-23 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Habits

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Every thought, belief, and action that you repeat over and over turns into a habit… an unconscious, automatic behavior…

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2010-03-22 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Memory Challenge

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In order to illustrate the amazing power of patterns, let’s try a fun little memory challenge in four parts…

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2010-03-21 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: The Power of Patterns

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Your brain is a natural seeker, recognizer, discriminator, assimilator, interpreter, relater, combiner, connector, and creator of PATTERNS…

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2010-03-20 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Recognition & Recall

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Recall is a much tougher memory task than recognition, as illustrated by two everyday examples…

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2010-03-19 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Consolidation

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Consolidation is the process by which short-term memories are transformed into long-term memories…

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2010-03-18 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Chunking, Automization, & Practice

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A major goal of studying music is to turn disconnected pieces of information or behaviors into a single, unified, meaningful idea or behavior…

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2010-03-17 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Memory Aids

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Ready for a crazy obvious statement? The best way to remember something is to make it memorable!

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2010-03-16 How Your Brain Works

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