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The Learning Brain, Episode 2

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The Learning Brain, Episode 2
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
The Learning Brain
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Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2018
Runtime
29
Summary
In the 1950s, a Connecticut man named Henry Molaison became an unfortunate but invaluable source of information about how learning is implemented in the human brain after an experimental brain surgery led to profound amnesia. Studies of how he could (and couldn't) learn - and what those studies uncover about how the rest of us learn - are detailed in this revealing lecture
Technique
live action

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