Why Some People Don't Learn Well: EEG Shows Insufficient Processing of Information to Be Learned

The reason why some people are worse at learning than others has been revealed by a research team from Berlin, Bochum, and Leipzig.

They have discovered that the main problem is not that learning processes are inefficient per se, but that the brain insufficiently processes the information to be learned.

How well we learn depends on genetic aspects, the individual brain anatomy, and, not least, on attention. "In recent years we have established a procedure with which we trigger learning processes in people that do not require attention," says Hubert Dinse. The researchers were, therefore, able to exclude attention as a factor.

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