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The Learning Brain, Episode 5

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The Learning Brain

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2018

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How do you know the distance to the Earth from the Sun? With no first-hand experience, we use "semantic memory" - impersonal, fact-based memory - for world knowledge. Semantic memory also includes our grouping or categorizing of information - but how do our brains do that? Professor Polk makes short, easy work of the subject

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