How Adults Actually Learn and Change

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]So, in other words, if you want to change your brain as an adult, let's say you want to be less anxious, you want to learn a new language, you want to be more functional in some way, presumably.

[00:00:10]The key thing is to bring focus to some particular perception of something that's happening during the learning process. And the reason for that is that there's a neurochemical system involving acetylcholine.

[00:00:23]And it comes from these two little nuclei down in the base of the brain called nucleus basalis.