How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene
How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene
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How We Learn
Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

Author: Stanislas Dehaene

Narrator: Kaleo Griffith

Unabridged: 10 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 01/28/2020


Synopsis

“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.”--The New York Times Book Review

An illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the potential of the machines we program to imitate them

The human brain is an extraordinary learning machine. Its ability to reprogram itself is unparalleled, and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. But how do we learn? What innate biological foundations underlie our ability to acquire new information, and what principles modulate their efficiency?

In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene finds the boundary of computer science, neurobiology, and cognitive psychology to explain how learning really works and how to make the best use of the brain’s learning algorithms in our schools and universities, as well as in everyday life and at any age.

About The Author

Stanislas Dehaene is the director of the Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit in Saclay, France, and the professor of experimental cognitive psychology at the Collège de France. He is currently the president of the Scientific Council of the French Ministry of Education.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Atila on January 05, 2021

Temos uma discussão sobre aprendizagem enorme no Brasil, mas pouco da nossa educação leva em conta experimentos controlados que comparam como as pessoas aprendem. Só este passo já é o que faz livros sobre como aprendemos como o ótimo How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It H......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on August 12, 2020

I took cognitive science at the end of my psychology degree. It was AMAZING. The findings and insights of cognitive science are all about how people learn. In other words, when you learn cognitive science, you learn how to learn. In a crazy kind of Möbius strip, life imitating art type lived irony, y......more

Goodreads review by Debjeet on November 06, 2020

HOW WE LEARN • The brain draws its knowledge from its environment. • Nerve cells posses a remarkable ability to constantly adjust their synapses to signal they perceive. • Our 23 pair of chromosomes contain 3 billion pairs of the letters A,C,G,T -the molecules adenine,cytosine,guanine and thymine. Inf......more

Goodreads review by Sabin on October 17, 2021

This one’s a hidden gem. Ok, the first third is a bit underwhelming. In the beginning, the author talks about general mechanisms by which we encode information about the world and how machine learning computer algorithms cannot match the human brain because they do not employ these mechanisms. Yet.......more

Goodreads review by Emre on February 27, 2021

This book strikes a special chord with me: I started my formal cognitive science training and research activities almost 20 years ago, and reading the cognition-related developments in brain sciences that occurred in the last 20-25 years brings a unique type of excitement. I haven't been involved wi......more


Quotes

"There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within . . . His explanation of the basic machinery of the brain is an excellent primer.”--The New York Times Book Review

“[An] expert overview of learning . . . Never mind our opposable thumb, upright posture, fire, tools, or language; it is education that enabled humans to conquer the world . . . Dehaene's fourth insightful exploration of neuroscience will pay dividends for attentive readers.”--Kirkus Reviews

“[Dehaene] rigorously examines our remarkable capacity for learning. The baby brain is especially awesome and not a ‘blank slate’  . . . Dehaene’s portrait of the human brain is fascinating.”--Booklist

“A richly instructive [book] for educators, parents, and others interested in how to most effectively foster the pursuit of knowledge.” --Publishers Weekly

Praise for Reading in the Brain:

 
"Splendid...Dehaene reveals how decades of low-tech experiments and high-tech brain-imaging studies have unwrapped the mystery of reading and revealed its component parts...A pleasure to read. [Dehaene] never oversimplifies; he takes the time to tell the whole story, and he tells it in a literate way."—The Wall Street Journal

"Masterful...a delight to read and scientifically precise."—Nature

Praise for Consciousness and the Brain:

"Ambitious . . . Dehaene offers nothing less than a blueprint for brainsplaining one of the world's deepest mysteries. . . . [A] fantastic book."—The Washington Post

"Dehaene is a maestro of the unconscious."—Scientific American Mind

"Brilliant... Essential reading for those who want to experience the excitement of the search for the mind in the brain."—Nature