Name: The Learning Brain
Released: 2018-05-25T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Thad A. Polk

TV Show · Educational · Documentary

Identifying and differentiating between several kinds of memories; the control people have over retaining and recalling them; getting the tools one needs for better study habits, learning a new skill or dealing with memories that fade with age.

2018 · 30m

Starring Thad A. Polk

EPISODE 1

Learning 101

A clear definition of the concept of learning; Professor Polk provides a course overview with examples of some of the topics that will be covered; how scientists study learning; the neural basis of learning; effective learning strategies.

30m
EPISODE 2

What Amnesia Teaches Us about Learning

In the 1950s, a Connecticut man named Henry Molaison becomes a source of information about how learning is implemented in the human brain; studies of how he could and could not learn; what those studies uncover about learning.

29m
EPISODE 3

Conscious, Explicit Learning

Why people can remember visual information better than verbal information; why how much one knows about a topic can have a profound influence on how easy it is to learn new information about it; these examples demonstrate explicit learning.

28m
EPISODE 4

Episodic Memory and Eyewitness Testimony

Much of what one remembers is often a plausible reconstruction of what might have happened; how susceptible eyewitness memories are to distortion; how being asked seemingly innocuous questions can lead to substantial errors in memory.

28m
EPISODE 5

Semantic Memory

With no first-hand experience, people use semantic memory for world knowledge; semantic memory also includes the grouping or categorizing of information; how the brain does this; Professor Polk makes short and easy work of the subject.

32m
EPISODE 6

The Neural Basis of Explicit Learning

Exploring the brain to uncover the physical mechanisms involved in forming explicit memories; beginning in the hippocampus, where explicit learning begins; looking at the cerebral cortex, where memories become consolidated with other memories.

31m

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