My notes on how we learn.

0 The Science Behind the Learning  To understand some of how neurons work, check out these two videos from ASAPScience; Your brain on Marijuana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeF6rFN9org and Your brain on Alcohol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkpz7xFTWJo . Memory is aided by organization. A master memorizer can remember the order of a deck of cards in well under a minute. Watch Ben Pridmore at the Memory Games win the memorize a deck of cards event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzcBhIp0cp4 To understand how organization improves memory, and hence learning, check our Josh Foer’s TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6PoUg7jXsA .

Here is interesting research on how dogs learn to understand human language. The results are amazing. They seem to learn language the same way human infants learn language. Check it out! https://phys.org/news/2021-10-dogs-word-boundaries-human-infants.html