To provide the best training design for any instructional situation, it is imperative that Instructional Designers be aware of how the human brain senses, processes and recalls information. Considering the cognitive processes of the brain, effective training can be achieved if one is aware of how the brain traverses its neural network to abstract information. It is important to keep these processes in mind when developing learning strategies to shape desired learning outcomes and to successfully encode meaningful information for future recall and confirmed learning. Overview The human brain is a unique, electrochemical super computer, which is far greater in complexity, speed and sophistication than the most advanced digital computer known. The brain receives sensory impulses from the environment and decides to process this input as warranted.
Processing depends on the nature and complexity of the data as perceived by the individual.
The way information is received, processed and recalled by the human mind is necessary to know if instruction is to be efficiently designed and sequenced to elicit the highest possible performance from training. The Conditions of Learning Training Applications provides a link between learning psychology and instructional design. This paper attempts to elaborate on the Information Processing Model as described in the writing mentioned above and to surface implications for the design of training. Analyzing, designing and implementing instruction according to how the human brain processes information is key to achieving successful encoding of data. If one could trace the flow of information from the moment sensed from one's environment through the entire sequence of how the brain processes that stimulus, we would consider this a learning cycle from stimulus through response.