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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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2010-03-01 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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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Why We Forget

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While some memories fade and disappear over time by a process of gradual decay, the primary reason that most of us “forget” something is that we never really learned that something in the first place.

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How Your Brain Works: “Memorization”

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“Memorization” is in quotes because the goal of studying is not to memorize something like you memorize a sequence of random numbers…

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How Your Brain Works: Soak Time

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Your brain is like a sponge in three ways…

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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: The Power & Challenge of Attention

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Attention is probably the least appreciated aspect of intentional learning…

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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: The Learning Process

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Intentional learning is the process by which we deliberately and consciously try to learn something of value that we intend to store for future use…

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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Memory Fundamentals

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Your brain’s memory system consists of four sub–systems…

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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: One Brain, Two Sides

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Your brain, both anatomically and functionally, consists of two distinct hemispheres: left and right…

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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: One Brain, Many Intelligences

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Your brain is not a single organ…

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