Category: Brain and Biology

Henning Beck: A great ted talk about Human Thinking VS Algorithmic Thinking

"Many people think that it is important now a days to work harder, faster, and more efficient to solve problems,but that's exactly what machines can do. Every efficient procedure will be replaced by algorithms eventually. Henning Beck https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1305261194219933697?s=20

Offloading information to an external memory: Good or bad

I really think the relevancy of memorization based educational practices need more scientific investigation. How much can and should we remember in a dynamic and information-abundant-world should be investigated. How much fundamentally transient information should we remember. ? Who get to decide ?(Blind man leading blind man?) I think the cognitive view totally ignores human … Continue reading Offloading information to an external memory: Good or bad

Tweet: How to activate your brain’s ability to learn

https://t.co/wgS15pzPy8— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) May 26, 2019 Training past the point of improvement is called 'overlearning.' A recent study in Nature Neuroscience suggests that such post improvement training might further improve performance by altering chemicals in the brain that "lock" in training. Review of the Study >> How to activate your brain's ability to learn Read the study >> Overlearning hyperstabilizes … Continue reading Tweet: How to activate your brain’s ability to learn

Tweet: Stanford study on how the brain decides what to learn by Xiaoke Chen and Greg Nachtrab

Neuro-scientists know a lot about how our brains learn new things, but not much about how they choose what to focus on while they learn. According to this study, a part of the brain called the paraventricular thalamus, or PVT, serves as a kind of gatekeeper, making sure that the brain identifies and tracks the … Continue reading Tweet: Stanford study on how the brain decides what to learn by Xiaoke Chen and Greg Nachtrab

Tweet: Stability shuts down the learning centers of the brain.

  Yale Study, Stability shuts down the learning centers of the brain.https://t.co/qldBqInUF3— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) August 14, 2018https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js   A study by Yale researchers(Daeyeol Lee, Bart Massi and Christopher H. Donahue) published in the journal Neuron has found that stability may shut down your brain's learning centers. In an initial experiment, monkeys were given choice between hitting … Continue reading Tweet: Stability shuts down the learning centers of the brain.