We may also eventually need to think the unthinkable: that some students may simply be incapable of learning at the level we would like.
Unless and until we learn, at the level of individuals and communities, what is really happening – and who is responsible – we cannot hope to challenge the structures that perpetuate the exploitation of human beings for private profit.
But they offer a view of the mechanisms of liking, wanting, and learning at the level of nuts and bolts; and once you have the nuts and bolts, you can begin to tinker.
Such similarities in neurochemistry that allow caffeine to affect mammalian and insect brains in similar ways may seem surprising, but insects like fruit flies and the nervous systems of even more primitive organisms like nematodes have been used to study learning at the level of individual cells and the chemistry that changes their activities.
While the long-term potentiation of synapses in cell culture seems to provide an elegant substrate for learning and memory, the contribution of LTP to behavioral learning — that is, learning at the level of the whole organism — cannot simply be extrapolated from in vitro studies.
In the authors' hypothesis, as cortical assemblies reaching the striatum partially overlap, learning at the level of the cortico-striatal connections connects the activation of assemblies between each other, allowing the triggering of sequences of motor programs.
The results of these experiments combined with new knowledge about the detailed structure of the mushroom body lay the foundations for new studies that explore associative learning at the level of individual circuits and their component cells.
In a previous paper, we documented the development of the initial programme theory underlying the IPV policy in Spain [ 15] and how its implementation can be shaped through team learning at the level of primary health care teams.
To take an extreme example, if the two word lists shared no letter combinations in common, it would be impossible to distinguish whether faster reading speed for trained words than untrained words had been driven by learning at the level of whole-word representations or sub-lexical representations.
