Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
—Solon
To explore how humans learn as a species is to explore the very cores of cognition and emotion themselves. 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 learning a fact ...
