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Your Brain on Change

Learningtogo

Your Brain on Change. The first thing we need to understand about the human brain is that it evolved to keep us safe in a dangerous world, where our ancestors met deadly threats at every turn. For those of us who are responsible for change management, we need to consider how the brain responds to change. by Margie Meacham.

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Joining forces with the brain to deliver long term L&D impact

Elucidat

We’re all working against the brain, rather than with it. In fact, she thinks everyone should better understand their brain. Here are some top tips from Lauren: Work with the brain, not against it: Start focusing on what’s going on in the brain, so you can design learning more scientifically. The results?

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Multitasking Vs. Continuous Partial Attention

eLearningMind

What is Continuous Partial Attention (CPA)? Continuous Partial Attention (CPA) is an automatic process that enables people to simultaneously pay attention to several sources of information, whilst scanning for relevant information. What is the Difference between Multitasking and Continuous Partial Attention?

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Does Your Brain Need Santa Claus?

Learningtogo

One key to understanding why magical thinking exists is to understand the brain’s capacity to predict future events based on past experience. The brain does this by paying attention to changes in the environment and linking current and past events together to build a reliable model of the world.

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Does Your Brain Need Santa Claus?

Learningtogo

One key to understanding why magical thinking exists is to understand the brain’s capacity to predict future events based on past experience. The brain does this by paying attention to changes in the environment and linking current and past events together to build a reliable model of the world.

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The Neurobiology of Why Your Learner’s Brain Responds to Great Storytelling

Maestro

It doesn’t matter: our brains are wired for stories, and it’s in our nature to look to stories in order to build trust, empathy, and make sense of the world around us. Cortisol: the attention grabber. Without the reaction in our brains caused by cortisol, we lose interest quickly. And now you’re hooked. The story loses us.

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Why Psychology is Still Relevant in the Age of Neuroscience

Learningtogo

Nearly everything we thought we knew about the human brain changed when we started putting live subjects into functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines (MRIs) about 15 years ago. Cognitive science is a branch of psychology that attempts to explain human behavior by understanding how we think. by Margie Meacham.

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