EAN: 9780141989303

HOW WE LEARN - STANISLAS DEHAENE KARTONIERT (TB)

'Absorbing  mind-enlarging  studded with insights ... This could have significant real-world
results' Sunday Times   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.  The human brain is an extraordinary machine. Its ability to
process information and adapt to circumstances by reprogramming itself is unparalleled  and it
remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. How
We Learn finds the boundary of computer science  neurobiology  cognitive psychology and
education to explain how learning really works and how to make the best use of the brain's
learning algorithms - and even improve them - in our schools and universities as well as in
everyday life.

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