Ben Brocka

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I'm a moderator on User Experience Stack Exchange.

Programmer/Systems Analyst working mostly in PHP/HTML/CSS. Enthusiast follower of User Experience topics and solutions.

I have Bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Human Computer Interaction and I continue to be fascinated by the brain and cognition and it's relevance in design.

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Jan 19	comment	Is there a practical limit to the amount of knowledge a human can learn? There are studies of individuals who "never forget" certain types of irrelevant details, I'll try to find something tomorrow
Jan 19	comment	Have ideas of “gamification” been applied to education? Relevant but not specific to education: lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Building-Community-the-Platform/…
Jan 19	comment	Do children show top-down processing as much as adults do? Piaget would say no
Jan 19	comment	Is IQ really unimportant for creativity beyond a certain basic IQ of roughly 125? I believe this question is in regards to the IQ/creativity Threshold Theory, which I'm having a heck of a time finding a good, single page description of. If anyone finds one we should probably add it to the body of the question.
Jan 19	comment	How is a young child able to learn language so easily? The Critical Period is a large part of what you're talking about but at the moment I don't have the time for a full answer
Jan 19	comment	How is it that taking a break from a problem sometimes allows you to figure out the answer? Your mind sits on the egg passively. Incubation is (arguably) a passive process in this context. Tearing open the egg would be actively seeking it, and would yield less than ideal results.
Jan 19	comment	How is it that taking a break from a problem sometimes allows you to figure out the answer? @Kris how so? Sitting on a thing (idea) until it develops seems like an apt metaphor.
Jan 18	comment	How is it that taking a break from a problem sometimes allows you to figure out the answer? @Josh just added some more information about Fixation as well, which is also very relevant, and another great article on the matter.