Brain Function
In this section we look at how the brain learns and remembers, how it manages to do more than one thing at once, how is pays attention and how it can be tricked with illusions.
Learning
- How does the brain learn to speak? [Key Stages 3 & 4]
- Habituation: Why do things stop being surprising? [Key Stages 3 & 4]
- Classical Conditioning: How does the brain automatically learn new things? [Key Stages 3 & 4]
- Training and Reinforcement: How can we train the brain to learn things? [Key Stages 2-4]
Memory
- Memory Introduction [Key Stages 3 & 4]
- Short Term Memory [Key Stages 1-4]
- Chunking [Key Stages 2-4]
- What do we remember best? [Key Stage 1-4]
- Long-term memory: The Hippocampus [Key Stages 2-4]
- Autobiographical and Flashbulb Memory [Key Stages 2-4]
- Super-Memorizers [Key Stages 2-4]
- Mnemonics [Key Stages 2-4]
- Memory Illusions [Key Stages 2-4]