March 9, 2004

Our Brains Cheat During Learning

Learning as object-related pattern finding: Our Brains Cheat During Learning: "Researchers have shown that our brains might cheat when learning, switching to 'automatic pilot' mode whenever it's possible. Instead of trying to answer a question by reasoning, our brain explore a catalog of previous answers to similar questions just to save time and avoid thinking."

Posted by gsiemens at March 9, 2004 5:28 PM