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How we learn: the new science of education and the brain

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Humanity's greatest feat is our incredible ability to learn. Even in their first year, infants acquire language, visual and social knowledge at a rate that surpasses the best supercomputers. But how, exactly, do our brains learn?

In How We Learn, leading neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene delves into the psychological, neuronal, synaptic and molecular mechanisms of learning. Drawing on case studies of children who learned despite huge difficulty and trauma, he explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but also assures us that our abilities continue into adulthood. We can all enhance our learning and memory at any age and 'learn to learn' by taking maximal advantage of the four pillars of the brain's learning algorithm: attention, active engagement, error feedback and consolidation.

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153 DEH h

Publisher

United Kingdom : Penguin., 2021

Collation

319 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780141989303

Classification

150

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Subject(s)

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Educational Psychology

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Stanislas Dehaene

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High School

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Independent

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