Five Essential Lessons from Cognitive Science

Cognitive science has uncovered powerful insights into how people learn—but many of these findings are underutilized in corporate training. This session highlights five essential principles from the learning sciences that every L&D professional should know.

Through hands-on demonstrations, you’ll explore how cognitive limits shape learning, why chunking information improves retention, how prior goals influence perception and attention, and more. These lessons aren’t just theoretical—they reveal why some training works while other training fails and provide practical takeaways for designing learning that better aligns with how the brain actually processes information. Whether you build eLearning, facilitate training, or design instructional strategies, this session will give you science-backed tools to improve engagement, comprehension, and retention.

Your people will learn how to:

  • Explain why working memory is limited and how exceeding its capacity leads to cognitive overload and poor retention.
  • Apply semantic chunking techniques to organize information in ways that expand memory capacity and improve recall.
  • Describe how meaning is constructed during communication and why words and symbols alone are insufficient for true understanding.
  • Recognize how goals shape perception and attention, so you can design training that aligns with what learners are primed to notice.
  • Use active mental processing strategies to enhance memory retention and ensure learners engage deeply with new information.
Capacity
20 people
Location
Virtual
Duration
1 hour

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About BCL

Understanding how people learn isn’t always enough.  To get projects done and make sure you target the right goals, you have to navigate complex organizations and their social environments.  That’s where consulting experience is a huge advantage.  We combine deep understanding of learning with practical management consulting experience.  This is the key to delivering high end learning experiences that move the dial.

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