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Graham Phillips's picture

On the tips of our toes

What we are learning today really demonstrates how complicated the process of generating and repressing signals is.  Some inputs produce an output, others produce none and still other outputs are generated with no inputs at all. 

What will become important now is to understand how the brain remembers materials that we have learned and employs them for recall.  If we understand how and where our students are processing the information, and, more specifically, what their nervous systems are doing with the stories we provide them (or expect them to remember, at any rate), we may better understand how to more efficiently and effectively reach our students. 

 

Also for myself, it will prove interesting as I try to understand the connection between my nervous system and my body and how that helps me to remember movement.  This in turn will (I hope) help me to become a better dancer...

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