by Margie Meacham | Jul 4, 2018 | LearningToGo Blog
Understanding the Paradox of Choice Based on our understanding of how the brain makes decisions, the very flexibility that makes the relatively new standard of Experience API (xAPI) so attractive may be shutting down learner engagement by making it too hard to choose...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 30, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
The Greek philosopher and mathematician, Pythagoras, discovered the relationship between the length of a string on an instrument and the pitch that the string produces. He believed that this correlation was part of a harmonic relationship that connects everything in...
by Margie Meacham | Oct 27, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
A recent study of the fear response looked at how the brain learns, encodes and retrieves memories of fear-inducing events, causing us to react with fear when faced with a similar situation in the future. These researchers identified a particular type of neuron in the...
by Margie Meacham | Jul 24, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
Perhaps one of the most unique characteristics of our species is our insatiable obsession with ourselves. Going back to the earliest examples of human cave art, we see evidence of our collective narcissism. Many of the figures in cave art depict food sources, like...
by Margie Meacham | Aug 15, 2016 | LearningToGo Blog
It’s well-documented that as a species we like to identify ourselves withwinnersand those we perceive as having the highest potential to win. This tendency seems to validate the statement that our brain ishard-wired for survival, an observation made by John...
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