Journal of Neuroscience: EEG activity predicts learning
success
Research team discovers: brain does not process sensory
information sufficiently
The reason why some people are worse at learning than others
has been revealed by a research team from Berlin, Bochum, and Leipzig,
operating within the framework of the Germany-wide network “Bernstein Focus
State Dependencies of Learning”. They have discovered that the main problem is
not that learning processes are inefficient per se, but that the brain
insufficiently processes the information to be learned. The scientists trained
the subjects’ sense of touch to be more sensitive. In subjects who responded
well to the training, the EEG revealed characteristic changes in brain
activity, more specifically in the alpha waves. These alpha waves show, among
other things, how effectively the brain exploits the sensory information needed
for learning.