Benedict Carey, in How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When Where and Why It Happens, reports on recent research that illiterates the different ways in which we learn. Learning is not just the result of study-time, but rather study-method. Using naps, changes in environment, and daydreaming can all enhance the learning process.

Dan Hurley, in his article Uncram, for the New York Review of Books, reviews Carey’s book, How We Learn.

Benedict Cary, in his article, Why Flunking Exams Is Actually a Good Thing, for The New York Times Magazine, illustrates how learning and memory can be enhanced through priming and guessing. Priming and multiple exposures harness the features of our memory’s capacity for enhanced learning. These are only a couple of the learning mechanisms uncovered by cognitive science that can help us understand how we learn.