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A Thousand Neuroscientific Imperatives for Teaching Critical Thinking

Headagogy, with Steve Pearlman

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Neurons Are Always Making Predictions

Every neuron in your brain has action potential for certain things and not for other things. When a stimulus is coming, about 2% of your neurons charge up in prediction of what might happen. And then a small percentage of those neurons actually fire off when it's the right circumstance. This is happening thousands and thousands of times a second. It moves from being a one lane road to a tune lane road; three lane road to super highway.

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