Would you believe that most people with bad hearing perform well in auditory tests? It’s not exactly clear why these people pass auditory tests but fail to hear properly in noisy restaurants, but perceptual learning experts are researching this phenomena by looking at hearing as part of a larger model. Perceptual learning, as a field, studies how we improve our sensory abilities through experience, and offers the potential to “help people perform better in their daily lives, [ranging from] remembering a grocery list [to] hitting more home runs” Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
