how to build a fast learner, part 2

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We may be able to learn new things very quickly, and incorporate them into memories, if representations of related information have already been stabilized in the brain.

source:
Rapid Consolidation (pdf file)
Larry R. Squire
Science
April 6, 2007
Vol. 316 no. 5821, pp. 57-58

I've only glanced at the first page of Squire's commentary on the Tse, et al study, but my guess it that the condition under which rats failed at one-trial learning may resemble spiraling and constructivist curricula.

I'll see.


how to build a fast learner
how to build a fast learner, part 2