Posts Tagged ‘long-term memory’
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The triune brain
In the 1960′s, a neuroscientist named Paul MacLean formulated an idea called the Triune Brain…. To tell it in over-simplified terms, the idea describes how the human brain has formed as a result of evolution. Triune Brain Theory describes the brain in three parts: the reptilian brain, the mammal brain, and the human brain.
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The haphazard construction of the human mind
I recently finished reading Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind… by Gary Marcus. It’s an entire book written just about the brain and how it works, so as you can imagine there’s a lot of information in there to help learners. The book even contains an entire chapter about language.
Marcus repeatedly uses