Vej_Kse comments on Academic Cliques - Less Wrong

21 Post author: ChrisHallquist 08 November 2013 04:27AM

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Comment author: Vej_Kse 09 November 2013 03:23:45PM *  3 points [-]

It seems that simply bombarding the brain isn't sufficient, even for language, and that social interaction is required (see this study), so that playing math games with the child would be a better idea.

Comment author: AspiringRationalist 10 November 2013 12:10:04AM 2 points [-]

How does the brain decide whether it thinks of something as a social interaction? I would assume that computer/video games with significant social components hack into that, so hacking into it to teach math should be doable.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 10 November 2013 07:36:23PM -1 points [-]

I believe the way it works for language is that one can learn it from television, but not radio.

Comment author: erratio 12 November 2013 05:34:54PM 2 points [-]

Nope. It needs to be something with feedback.

Comment author: AspiringRationalist 11 November 2013 01:09:05AM 0 points [-]

That makes intuitive sense, at least in hindsight, since TV provides ample non-linguistic information that you can learn to associate with the linguistic information.