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What is learning? Give me the basics!

This is a great question, and the full answer would fill several books. But here we go – an attempt to distil the very basics of what we know about the brain, memory and learning to a few key messages.

Published 30 December 2020
Categorised as Podcasts, The Brain and Learning Tagged brain, cortex, emotions, hippocampus, learning, prefrontal cortex, social

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