Normal view MARC view ISBD view

How we learn : why brains learn better than any machine ... for now / Stanislas Dehaene

By: Dehaene, Stanislas [author].
Contributor(s): Penguin Books.
Publisher: [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2021Copyright date: ©2020Description: 319 p: illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0525559906; 9780525559900.Subject(s): Learning, Psychology of | Cognitive psychology | Neuroplasticity | Cognitive scienceGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part one. What is learning? -- Chapter 1. Seven definitions of learning -- Chapter 2. Why our brain learns better than current machines -- Part two. How our brain learns -- Chapter 3. Babies' invisible knowledge -- Chapter 4. Birth of a brain -- Chapter 5. Nurture's share -- Chapter 6. Recycle your brain -- Part three. The four pillars of learning -- Chapter 7. Attention -- Chapter 8. Active engagement -- Chapter 9. Error feedback -- Chapter 10. Consolidation -- Conclusion. Reconciling education with neuroscience -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Credits
    average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

"Based on, in part, Apprendre!, published in France by Odile Jacob, Paris, in 2018

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-305) and index

Introduction -- Part one. What is learning? -- Chapter 1. Seven definitions of learning -- Chapter 2. Why our brain learns better than current machines -- Part two. How our brain learns -- Chapter 3. Babies' invisible knowledge -- Chapter 4. Birth of a brain -- Chapter 5. Nurture's share -- Chapter 6. Recycle your brain -- Part three. The four pillars of learning -- Chapter 7. Attention -- Chapter 8. Active engagement -- Chapter 9. Error feedback -- Chapter 10. Consolidation -- Conclusion. Reconciling education with neuroscience -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Credits

Originally published: [New York, New York] : Viking, 2020

Copyright © 2020 Alfaisal University Library. All Rights Reserved.
Tel: +966 11 2158948 Fax: +966 11 2157910 Email:
librarian@alfaisal.edu