Watching Neurons Learn: Learning New Ideas Is More Difficult
Friday, September 19, 2014 - 07:02
in Biology & Nature
Image credit: r.nial.bradshaw via flickr. http://bit.ly/1wc7bXr. Rights information: http://bit.ly/cGotEbBy: Joel N. Shurkin, Inside Science(Inside Science) -- Researchers in Pittsburgh, using a brain-computer interface, have shown why learning something similar to what you already know--a repertoire of previous knowledge--makes learning new things easier. Learning unfamiliar ideas or behavior is more difficult.While that sounds self-evident, the researchers have actually watched it happen in animal brains to learn how it works. read more