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How the Brain ‘Grasps’ New Concepts

From This Week with EdSurge · Hosted by Ira Apfel

December 22, 2020·24:47

Episode summary

In this episode of This Week with EdSurge: Forgetting is a feature, not a bug. That's one of the surprising truths about how the brain works in the new book "Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn. " We talk with the book's co-author, Sanjay Sarma, a professor and the vice president for open learning at MIT.

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Forgetting is a feature, not a bug. That's one of the surprising truths about how the brain works in the new book "Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn." We talk with the book's co-author, Sanjay Sarma, a professor and the vice president for open learning at MIT.