Neuroscientists are increasingly convinced that the fastest way to learn something new is not to grind longer, but to pause ...

Seitz says that "there are numerous strategies to trick the brain into learning what we want." These include giving the brain additional chances with the material—"we can re-read text or rewatch a ...

These incidental learning systems are "often a set of tricks," he continues, like "focused attention, repetition, creating rewarding circumstances, etc." When we fail at intentionally learning systems ...