Our findings should contribute to understanding the origins of learning disorders - the genetic causes and their neural consequences.

However, it is likely that the intervention will only be effective in a 'plastic' brain, in children. We see no sign of improvement in adults.

Because food-chain length influences the bioaccumulation of contaminants, understanding the causes of variation in food-chain length will help us understand the variation of contaminant concentrations,

The more you understand, the less you have to remember.

Then why do you want to know?"

"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Much learning does not teach understanding.