The Challenge For E Learning Practitioners

The human brain is capable of perceiving and interpreting information or stimuli received through the sense organs (i.e., eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin) (Weiten, 1998). This ability to perceive and interpret stimulus allows the human being to make meaningful sense of the world and environment around them. However, even as the human being is able to perceive and interpret stimuli information through all sense organs, stimuli is most often or primarily interpreted using the visual (eyes) and auditory (ears) sense organs (Anderson, 2009). However, for the purpose of this paper, the visual information process will be examined.

Until, it was brought to her attention, she had no idea that she was only drawing half of the picture. This gives us evidence that there is not only a sensory problem, but a problem of consciousness. With 30 areas in the brain for seeing, visual input divides into two parallel streams of processing. One called the How pathway, is concerned with navigation and the other called the “What” pathway is concerned with recognition.

Our study of the distinctively visual deepens our understanding of the world and those who inhabit it.

“…unless our words, concepts, ideas are hooked onto an image, they will go in one ear, sail through the brain, and go out the other ear. Words are processed by our short-term memory where we can only retain about seven bits of information (plus or minus 2) […]. Images, on the other hand, go directly into long-term memory where they are indelibly etched.” (qtd. in Gutierrez)

Humans have a unique and wonderful device in how one sees. The eye and brain work together to turn the world into visual data one’s brain can understand and use. There are some eye conditions that inhibit the sight or the recognition of the shapes one sees. Research continues to overcome these conditions as well as to further understand the biochemical reaction that gives humans the sight and understanding one has of visual data. Included in the paper are some of the latest research methods.

Visual information processing has a big neural investment in the cortical region of the brain. This is an inherited investment, that has evolved to

This like many other studies supports the idea that vivid memories are related to a higher level of emotion or arousal within the participant and therefore more easily accessible, by showing a picture rather than a verbal cue participants display a higher level of connection to the cue.

Elliott (1973) examined the concept that those who used imagery would have better recall than those who used rehearsal memory techniques while performing an additional task of either looking at an unrelated picture, reading a short passage or listening to numbers being recited. He also hypothesized that words that were more concrete in nature would have a higher recall rate than those that were abstract. As he expected, Elliott (1973) found that those who used imagery to memorize information did better on recall during all three additional tasks and that concrete words overall had a higher recall rate. He further cemented this idea when he unexpectedly tested participants on their long-term memory after

To demonstrate the understanding that words generate visual images, we also used just words to create

The ultimate goal for a system of visual perception is representing visual scenes. It is generally assumed that this requires an initial ‘break-down’ of complex visual stimuli into some kind of “discrete subunits” (De Valois & De Valois, 1980, p.316) which can then be passed on and further processed by the brain. The task thus arises of identifying these subunits as well as the means by which the visual system interprets and processes sensory input. An approach to visual scene analysis that prevailed for many years was that of individual cortical cells being ‘feature detectors’ with particular response-criteria. Though not self-proclaimed, Hubel and Wiesel’s theory of a hierarchical visual system employs a form of such feature detectors. I

Much is known about the way the cerebral cortex, the outer rind of the brain, initially analyses sensory messages. Yet investigations are only now beginning to suggest how the brain moves beyond the mere extraction of features-how it combines sensory messages with

Explained as simplistically as possible, Visual perception itself is the ability to interpret one 's surrounding environment by, processing information through the eye to the brain. The eye is a sense organ which is part of the sensory system which in turn transmits information about one 's environment to the brain.

The purpose of this case is to see and understand how e-learning tool contributed to an improvement in the processes of Cisco Systems by answering the following questions:

e-Learning is a catch-all term that covers a wide range of instructional material that can be delivered on a CD-ROM or DVD, over a local area network (LAN), or on the Internet. It includes Computer-Based Training (CBT), Web-Based Training (WBT), Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS), distance or online learning and online tutorials. The major advantage to students is its easy access. There