Elucidat

MAY 21, 2025

He pioneered the forgetting curve , illustrating how much information the brain can retain over time. This is on-demand learning thats backed by cognitive science and really sticks. Compliance Provide quick refreshers that reduce risk and support real behavior change. Are behaviors changing? Dont just track completion.

microlearning

Hurix Digital

JUNE 24, 2025

The brain becomes more flexible when in a good mood, allowing students to grasp more complex concepts. Learning to process more than one project at a time will benefit students by training the brain to work more efficiently. In other words, when learning is fun , students are more likely to engage in the material.

Classroom

Hurix Digital

APRIL 30, 2025

It aims to motivate and engage users by making tasks more enjoyable and rewarding, ultimately influencing their behavior. It taps into the players cognitive, social, and emotional motivations by creating different circumstances and encouraging them to participate.

Games

Limestone Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Drawing on examples of remarkable leaders and the research of renowned behavioral scientists, you’ll learn why people do what they do and how you can help them change — quickly and permanently. Cognitive Neuroscientist and Founder of Enhancive, to learn what it takes to keep your audiences’ brains engaged and likely to recall.

Free

Webanywhere

MARCH 16, 2025

Gone are the days of referring to brains as sponges that absorb readymade solutions. As briefly mentioned, brains were deemed sponges that could soak up pre-written scripts spouted by the educator. The best teaching methods have evolved significantly over time.

Learning Theory

Clarity Consultants

MARCH 21, 2025

By gaining a deeper understanding of how the brain processes, retains, and recalls information, organizations can improve learning experiences, making them both more engaging and effective. Short, focused learning sessions reduce cognitive overload and improve long-term retention.

Cognitive

Infopro Learning

JANUARY 26, 2025

Cognitive Learning Theory (CLT) explains how the brain processes, retains and applies new information. With a focus on deep understanding rather than memorizing facts, cognitive learning encourages a more active, hands-on approach, asthe learner creates knowledge through experience and interaction.

Cognitive

LearnDash

JUNE 10, 2013

This example demonstrates that gaming has a profound impact on cognitive abilities, which is the primary reason why we are seeing games supplement elearning today. The proof is there when it comes to gaming and the positive impacts it can have on our brains, learning comprehension, and translating that learning into real behaviors.

Brain

Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 17, 2020

Our brains are wired for stories. Even when we sleep, our brains keep telling us stories all night in our dreams. You might also like… All of my posts on storytelling and scenarios A range of options for storytelling and scenarios Learner engagement: Behavioral, cognitive, and affective.

Podcasts

Clark Quinn

JULY 3, 2010

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question of the Month is “Does the discussion of “how the brain learns&# impact your eLearning design?&# My answer is in several parts. Some of the so-called brain science ranges from misguided to outright misleading. We’ve lots to learn yet about our brains. Caveat emptor!

Brain

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I’ve long maintained that our organizational practices are too often misaligned with how our brains really work. Yet, I realize that there may be another legacy, a cognitive one. The cognitive approach is certainly more recent than the Industrial Age, but it carries its own legacies. The premise comes from business.

Industry

Clark Quinn

JULY 18, 2018

In a recent article , I wrote about three types of cognition that are changing how we think about how we think (how meta!). I think it’s important to understand these cognitions, and their implications. First, I want to talk about situated cognition. Cognitive psychology was a rebellion from this perspective.

Cognitive

Learningtogo

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Want to Change Behavior? Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness introduced the term in 2008 as a framework for achieving social change at scale by making tiny, incremental changes in the behavior of a large population. People can’t be forced to change behavior.

Behavior

Experiencing eLearning

MAY 8, 2012

One of the benefits of games for learning is application and behavior change, something this research didn’t measure. an irrelevant treasure hunt, you’re adding cognitive load or at the least distracting the brain from the content. Our brains are wired for it.

Teach

Learning Visions

MAY 7, 2014

FMRI and more insight into the brain. At Kairos Labs they partner with 100+ behavioral scientists. In Switch – Behavioral Economics – motivation and willpower is like riding the elephant. You have to think about where someone is on that wave when you introduce training or behavior change. Habit = unconscious behaviors.

Behavior

Learning Visions

JANUARY 15, 2015

Tan Le, Emotiv Technology (building brain-based computer interfaces), bio-sensing devices that track how the brain responds. What''s missing now: devices that help us track our cognitive, behavioral, and mental health well-being. She gravitated to learning about the brain. Forgive any typos or incoherencies.

Brain

Learningtogo

JANUARY 17, 2023

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.

Cognitive

Learningtogo

MAY 25, 2016

Neuroscience has discovered what psychology long suspected – our brain doesn’t really perform multiple cognitive tasks at the same time. Repeated multi-tasking could even be causing physical damage to your brain. It turns out that our brain actually is working against itself in this case. The idea is a simple one.

Brain

Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

You have a rider -- the conscious, verbal thinking brain -- and the elephant -- the automatic, emotional, visceral brain. Hyperbolic discounting -- behavioral economics. Higher cognitive load in one group vs. the other who had easy math tasks. We think it has to do with brain glucose. Your brain on Tetris.

Cognitive

eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Carmen Simon is a cognitive scientist who has spent the past decade researching what makes content memorable. And the typical goal for creating a message or training program and sharing it with an internal audience is to influence their behavior in some way. But how can they act on your message if they only remember a tenth of it?

Custom eLearning Development

Learningtogo

AUGUST 19, 2019

He’s given me this beautiful gift – a video he made to recommend my book, Brain Matters: How to help anyone learn anything using neuroscience , to his massive audience online. And check out David’s site , for great resources in cognitive psychology and this interview with me.

Brain

Learningtogo

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The human species has faced many disruptive periods before and, so far, we’ve managed to adapt, thanks to the neuroplasticity of our brains. So, a good place to begin is with the human brain and how it learns. Fortunately, your brain is plastic and is a learning machine, but not everyone knows how to access that ability.

Brain

CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The claim has been made, fairly, that the most complex thing in the known universe is the human brain. Therefore, to believe that a systematic and persistent change in operation can be done without a fairly deep understanding of the brain is simplistic. The Cognitive Umbrella. The brain doesn’t work like that.

Cognitive

Convergence Training

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

In this Instructional Design Basics article, we’re going to look at the issue of cognitive load. We’ve explained the cognitive psychology model of how we process new information, learn, and develop skills more fully in this article on How We Learn , but let’s go over the highlights in brief. What Is Cognitive Load?

Cognitive

Clark Quinn

JULY 14, 2020

No, not as a plea for communism or something, but because it doesn’t align with our brains. Herb Simon was part winner of a Nobel prize (kinda before he went on to be a leader in the cognitive science field) on the facts that we’re satisficing buyers, not optimizing. A lovely theory. likely to find greasy sodden fish.

Cognitive

eLearningMind

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

We’ll be honest: There’s a huge difference between someone with a passing interest in neuroscience and someone who eat, sleeps, and breathes all things brain and behavior. After all, who better to advise on how best to make learning really stick than those individuals who have a deep and expert knowledge of the way the brain works?

Cognitive

Learningtogo

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Your Brain Is Wired for Music. While Pythagoras didn’t have the benefit of today’s brain imaging technology, he just may have been right. Human brains interpret waves that fall between 20 to 20,000 Hz as sound. Playing a Musical Instrument Changes Your Brain. Our Brains Are Predicting the Next Note.

Music

Learningtogo

JANUARY 24, 2018

The same brain that can be such a remarkable, proactive learning machine can become lazy and passive – particularly if passivity and conformity are rewarded generation after generation. Biologists define instincts as genetically hard-wired behaviors that provide a survival advantage. Your brain is like a heat-seeking missile.

Brain

Learningtogo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Brain Science of Keeping Resolutions. The Brain on Change. One of the key points in that article is that our brain is structured with one primary purpose: to keep us alive so that we can transmit our genes to the next generation. Changing the Brain to Change Behavior. Rich Brain/Poor Brain.

Brain

CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Measures of intelligence, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, are designed to quantify intelligence by measuring cognitive abilities such as knowledge and abstract reasoning. I refer to this as “cognitive intelligence” because the emphasis is on cognitive processing. Behavioral Intelligence: The Missing Link.

Behavior

The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This is much more than taking advantage of the various inbuilt cognitive biases with which behavioural economists are so obsessed. Companies that Spicer and Alvesson studied, hired smart people but then these people, because of company culture, were discouraged from using their brains. It is often intentionally created.

Cognitive

Infopro Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2022

There is a need to quickly reskill employees using different training delivery methods to keep pace with the industry’s unprecedented behavioral and economic changes. For instance, they can incorporate brain science techniques to create programs that appeal to human motivation and bring positive behavioral and cognitive changes.

Organization

Clark Quinn

APRIL 17, 2010

The premise is that the world is predictable and understandable, so that we can capture the ‘right’ behavior and train it. It’s in the nature of our cognitive architecture to have some randomness. ADDIE for process), is that most are based upon a flawed premise.

Cognitive

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m not alone in suggesting that, arguably, the most complex thing in the known universe is the human brain. I jokingly ask whether bullet points are going to lead to sustained changes in behavior in such a complex organism? Still, we will have to test. Yet, I also tout learning science design principles that help us.

Cognitive

CLO Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

Too often, there is a lack of alignment around an organization’s leadership model , a specific set of phrases that is designed to guide leadership behavior across a particular organization. It can be a long and arduous process to design an effective leadership model that results in consistent leadership behavior across the organization.

Brain

Learningtogo

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I often write about how the human race evolved and how we developed our finely tuned survival machines – our brains. How different would we be if all human brains were replaced with those of dogs? This is because the cerebral cortex , the seat of higher cognition, is less developed in dog brains.

Cognitive

CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

For example, if a personnel manager was interested in obtaining information about unconscious bias, they might watch a brief piece of video content focused on the definition of unconscious bias and how it can affect leadership behaviors in the workplace. Brain Science of People Skills Learning. People skills are about behavior.

Brain