New parts of the brain become active after students learn physics

Parts of the brain not traditionally associated with learning science become active when people are confronted with solving physics problems.

This study shows that the brain's activity can be modified by different forms of instruction.

Using fMRI to measure blood flow in the brain, the researchers looked to map what areas become active when completing a physics reasoning task, both before a course on the concepts and after.

The neurobiological processes that underpin learning are complex and not always directly connected to what we think it means to learn.

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