Oakley: Learning requires alternating between focused and diffuse modes of thinking
Barbara Oakley · #31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn · Apr 10, 2018 · at 13:47
Barbara Oakley, engineering professor and author of 'Learning How to Learn', explains how the brain's default mode network subconsciously consolidates complex concepts during rest periods.
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“And that learning involves going back and forth between these two different modes. And if you don't get something the first time, guess what? That's okay. If you don't get it when you're sitting there focusing the first time, Back off, you know, after you focus, back off, let it go, and what will happen is that default mode network, the diffuse network I often call it the diffuse mode, kind of indicating the default mode network will, it will kind of take over in the background while you're not concentrating, and it will work away, consolidating and making sense of the material.”
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