How Does The Brain Process Learning?
“The stuff that drives scientists into their laboratories instead of onto the golf links is the passion to answer questions, hopefully important questions, about the nature of nature. Getting a fix on important questions and how to think about them from an experimental point of view is what scientists talk about, sometimes endlessly. It is those conversations that thrill and motivate.” — Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga For most of the mid-20th Century, the theoretical views of psychologist B.F. Skinner and other behaviorists dominated the field of psychology. Whether the focus was on pigeons learning to depress a lever to receive food or more multifaceted issues such as the complex process of language acquisition, the deliberations were always reduced to “stimulus-response.” It was an unavoidable sequence of events. Even conversations about teaching and learning were reduced to the “S-R” model in order to proceed with the discussions surrounding concepts in learning theory. However,
