Somebody once said: “if the brain was so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t!”
Your brain contains about 100 billion brain cells or neurons. Each neuron is potentially linked to many thousands of other neurons. The more frequently neurons communicate with each other, the stronger the connections become – in the same way that the more frequently people walk across a patch of grass, the more definite the path becomes.
Learning involves the creation and strengthening of connections between neurons. One way of looking at it is to imagine that the stronger the connection, the more permanent the learning, although this is an over simplified definition of what is going on! There is still so much to learn about how the brain learns – particularly with regard to the way the brain stores unconscious knowledge, and the role of emotions.
This is why repetition generally helps with many kinds of learning.
