Corporate Mental Health & Performance
How do people make logical deductions in their daily lives? This question is essential because deductions are used in many cognitive processes like the consideration, if an object has certain features or not, in planning, communication, in the reconstruction of memories, solving of problems and predictions.
In this post, I want to share with you some knowledge about analog problem solutions and how to transfer experience/learning between past and newer tasks. This transfer depends on several factors like: The transfer is best when the similarity is big, but the interval short. Analog thinking is involving the projection of an initial situation … Read more
I hope you had fun playing “The towers of Hanoi” and maybe asked yourself how our brain finds the solution for a problem.
The reasoning is generally associated with actions like thinking, planning, considering, and knowing. Reasoning requires a state of consciousness and be more or less directed. Thinking describes informational processing and is often used to solve problems using a new combination of internal symbolic models. But what is a problem? We have a target in mind, … Read more
How is knowledge being represented in our brains?
Every verbal or visual information receive is stored through its meaning. Perceptual details get lost after 10 minutes.
Today we will have a closer look upon how the long-term memory works. There are simultaneously two memory systems activated:
The question to ask is: How do we manage to transfer information from the ultra-short-term memory into the long-term memory? Or better said, how do we learn?
This post will describe the overall structure of our memory system. Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968) divide the architecture of memory into three types:
The last post was about selective attention, which means criteria on which we select information channels to bundle our attention on a certain item.