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3. Learning and Memory

Scott Riley1  
(1)
Liverpool, UK
 

In its most reduced model, learning is simply the transmission of information from sensory input into long-term memory, with a few checkpoints along the way. In a wider sense, there are infinite ways in which we can learn things and seemingly infinite categories of learning we can partake in. Furthermore, learning is not just about committing a fact to long-term memory—learning a skill is as different from memorizing a fact as it is from developing a habit, yet all can be viewed as some form of learning or memorization.

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