Varying Time Frames for Adaptation
The explanation of how brains come to effectively accommodate new cultural requirements intertwines thee temporal scales of accommodation:
~ evolution of bodies (and brains)
~ creation over human evolution of cultural innovation
~ adaptation of an individual's brain to meet de demands of a culture or context
How People Learn II, p. 61
The slow evolution of our are brain is facing cultural changes that are happening at a faster pace, for that reason humans are using previous learning processes (already store in our brains) in order to efficiently learn new cultural requirements
Innovative technologies adapt to better fit people's natural learning structures. For example, technologies for immersing individual in 3D interactive worlds recreates human's ability of spatial navigation.
Brain's adaptation occurs due to individual's ability to change in response to a cultural context. Learning trajectories are often massively influenced by the expectation and training practice within a community .
Humans seem to be born with certain bias in the context of learning (their capacity to take into account previous knowledge in processing new information)