(from P.A.Wozniak, Economics of Learning)
It has been strongly pointed in the preceding section that the basics-to-details approach is, among other things, suppose to ensure the maximum level of comprehension. Here I will only note that comprehension is indeed related to the minimization of the complexity of synaptic patters that is the subject of this chapter. Nonsensical phrases or concepts involve a much greater number of neurons in the process of learning. Low-level electrical measurements showed that the neural activity is higher in cases of memorizing nonsensical words as opposed to natural words. Similarly, PET scans show that the brain activity of people exhibiting high IQ is much lower during performing a learning tasks that it is the case for low IQ students. Finally, it was shown that memory for people’s professions is more stable than the memory for their names. This was explained by psychologists as being related to the fact that well-established synaptic patters representing various professions are usually not matched by similar patterns that could be used easily used to represent names, esp. surnames.