How the Brain Repurposes Itself To Learn Scientific Concepts (IMAGE)

Carnegie Mellon University

How the Brain Repurposes Itself To Learn Scientific Concepts

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New research from Carnegie Mellon University shows for the first time how learning physics concepts is accomplished by repurposing neural structures that were originally used for general everyday purposes. More specifically, the brain is able to learn physics concepts because of its ability to understand the four fundamental concepts of causal motion, periodicity, energy flow and algebraic (sentence-like) representations.

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Carnegie Mellon University

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