Category Archives for Brain Science
The Power of Belief in Learning
When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a professional musician. I started playing drums in the school band when I was in 5th grade, and by the time I was 16, I was serious. I had started my own band.
Continue readingThe ever tightening link between sleep, learning, and memory
It’s been a while since my last post on sleep and learning. During that time, evidence suggesting the critical connection between sleep, learning, and memory has continued to accumulate. For a poor
Continue readingFish Really is Brain Food, Study Confirms
Wondering how to beef up your brain, not only to boost your learning power but also to protect against the risk of age-related brain diseases like Alzheimer’s? Read on for the latest news about
Continue reading15 Ways of the Successful Self-Directed Learner
The “why” of self-directed learning is survival—your own survival as an individual, and also the survival of the human race. Clearly, we are not talking here about something that would be
Continue reading10 Brain Links Worth Clicking
For those of you who haven’t yet decided to follow Mission to Learn on Twitter (You know who you are.), here’s a round up of some exquisite links I’ve tweeted lately on the general topic
Continue readingSo maybe we can make ourselves smarter?
I noted in an earlier post that as powerful as deliberate practice can be for mastering particular skills or knowledge, recent research suggests that we eventually run up against the limits of our intellectual
Continue readingWhat’s your working memory capacity, and other tests
A while back I noted that working memory may, it turns out, be a more important factor than deliberate practice in achieving greatness (or at least as important a factor). More recently I came across
Continue readingAbout Memory, Part II – Podcast with Fiona McPherson
This is the second installment of a Radio Free Learning podcast with Dr. Fiona McPherson, author of The Memory Key and curator of the About Memory Web site. In the first installment we discussed some
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