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Dr. Immordino-Yang: How Emotions & Social Factors Impact Learning
Huberman Lab
The Effects of True Stories on Default Mode Systems
In a series of experiments contrasting true stories that are meant to induce admiration for skill, like something physically skillful somebody can or cognitively skillful and memorize a Rubik's cube. We found it was those kinds of stories where people had to bring a lot of contextual knowledge to fully appreciate that activated these default mode systems. And in fact we can in trial by trial experiment so literally depending on what you say about a story whether it inspires you that particular story out of 50 is differentially based on your psychological reaction during an interview. So there are systematic ways in which these large scale networks of the brain work differently according to how they're being used.
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