The Learning Brain. Episode 2, What Amnesia Teaches Us about Learning.
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
The Great Courses,
2018.
Kanopy Streaming, 2019. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |