Fall 2013

How do we learn to pronounce words? Good question. Why are most of us, once past age 5, unable to learn to pronounce a foreign language like a native speaker? Another good question. The typical human brain has associative skills that no computer can match. You can look at a bucket and a shot glass and despite their differences your brain immediately associates them as vessels that hold liquid. How does it do that? For all that ability, though, after millennia of study and research and thought, we still do not have a complete understanding of how we learn. One could go deeper and say that we are in the process of learning how to learn about learning. / Johns Hopkins Magazine