In connectivism, the underlying idea that learning is the development of connections between neurons (and learnin theories tell us how such connections are formed). The hard science behind connectivism proceeds apace. In recent developments, researchers:
- have made neural network chips that emulate perceptual cognition
- identified neural pathways that control compulsive drinking in rats
- in 'top-down plasticity' repatterned 'body image' neural connections
- learned that word acquisition depends on bundles of neural connections
- explained the role of 'marking' in learning dance
The point here isn't that the approach to learning is based on one or another of these studies, but rather, that is it is consistent with, and reinforced by, these studies taken as a whole.
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