"When we look at living creatures from an outward point of view, one of the first things that strike us is that they are bundles of habits. The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over ...
Learning something new is all about memory and how you use it. At first, your prefrontal cortex, which stores your working (or short-term) memory, is really busy figuring out how it’s done. That’s the ...
Recently, I've become preoccupied with the website If This, Then That (ifttt.com, supposedly pronounced "ifttt"), which is either a remarkably handy new tool or a portent of the end of humanity. The ...
Instruction-based learning and automaticity represent key cognitive mechanisms through which explicit instructions are transformed into fluid, near-effortless behaviour. This process commences with ...
Experts are dubbing ‘automaticity’ the key to keeping up an exercise routine — here’s what that means. Now, researchers have found what makes these people so motivated for movement – and they’ve ...
"When we look at living creatures from an outward point of view, one of the first things that strike us is that they are bundles of habits. The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over ...