As we advance through the current century, it is becoming increasingly clear that we are no longer just learning by trial and error, but rather, we are learning through a combination of both. When we are in a research lab, we are looking at the most efficient way to produce our research in the shortest amount of time. When we are in the classroom, we are learning by being exposed to the best methods of teaching and learning.
Our current understanding of the brain has improved greatly over the past few decades, and one of the more notable milestones is that learning and memory are now thought to involve more than just physical changes in the brain itself. The most recent research, conducted by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, suggests that the brain actually contains a network of neurons that are capable of “remembering” what we learned in the past.
What’s important to remember here is that the brain is actually divided into two networks. One is the “plastic” or “hard” network, which is made up of neurons that are constantly bombarded by a constant stream of excitatory and inhibitory signals from other neurons and even from the outside world.
The other network is the “metabotropic” network, which is made up of neurons that are primarily responsible for remembering what we learned in the past. Once we know something, the neurons in the metabotropic network learn to be excited or depressed by it. In the same way that the neurons in the plastic network are constantly bombarded by their own excitatory and inhibitory signals, the metabotropic neurons are continually bombarded by external signals and by the neurons from the outside world.
When the metabotropic neurons learn to be excited or depressed by a new experience, that neuron is now said to be on the frontiers of learning. When the metabotropic neurons learn to keep their attention on something, they are said to be on the frontiers of attention. When the metabotropic neurons learn to pay attention to something, they are said to be on the frontiers of paying attention.
In other words, if you want to study the brain, you must always keep your brain on the frontiers of learning.
Learning is a very broad term for a very broad thing. There are many different things that can be learned that could be called learning, and these are all tied to the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex is a part of our brain that is responsible for controlling our attention and our decisions. If you want to see the prefrontal cortex as a learning machine, all the way down to the synapses, you need to keep it on the frontiers of learning.
The part of the brain that is responsible for our decision making and our attention is the prefrontal cortex. Our attention is our ability to focus on something. If you want to see this as a learning machine, you need to keep it on the frontiers of learning. That means that most of your learning is taking place in the prefrontal cortex.
This is why the prefrontal cortex is so important- it’s where our attention is made, where our impulse control is made, and where our decision making is made. It’s one of the most important parts of our brain because it is where we make our first ever conscious decision to do something. It’s the part that is responsible for our impulse to act in a harmful way and our impulse to do something that will make us feel good.
This new study seems to back up this idea that our brain is like a muscle. We can think of it as our little muscle that we control. If you pull your prefrontal cortex away from the rest of your brain and push it against a wall, it becomes weaker, and your brain can’t control what it is doing. This study, conducted by neuroscientist George Church, is the first to show that your brain is not just a muscle that you can control.