You can also follow us on Twitter and listen for Hidden Brain stories on your local public radio station. Hidden Brain is hosted by Shankar Vedantam and includes Parth Shah, Rhaina Cohen, and Laura Kwerel. This episode was produced by Jenny Schmidt and Thomas Lu and edited by Tara Boyle. Skinner, a pioneer in the field of behaviorism. Levy co-authored with Pryor, which finds that surgical students taught with a clicker are more precise than students taught by demonstration. Levy's teaching techniques build on Pryor's influential work with dolphins, whales and dogs. Our show includes the story of Karen Pryor, one of the founders of clicker training. The sort of clutter that can turn learning into a minefield of misery. It will take us from the Russian laboratory of Ivan Pavlov, to a dolphin exhibit in Hawaii to a top teaching hospital in New York. This week on Hidden Brain, we explore an innovative idea about how we learn. "It is baggage free, it is emotional free." "This is why I use the clicker," says Dr. The only reward for the student is the mastery of the skill.Īll the usual interference from the teacher - "great job," "well done," "no, wrong" - is removed. The only feedback is the sound of the click. Each step, performed correctly, is marked with his clicker. Levy breaks the skills down into tiny, incremental steps. It's one of the many tricks he uses to teach his inexperienced medical residents how to tie knots, drill holes and twist screws into broken bones and ligaments, among other techniques. Martin Levy uses clicker training - a technique drawn from the world of animal training, modified for humans-to help new surgeons quickly learn their craft. In 2012, after successfully using a clicker to teach his other Frisbee students - the human ones - he decided to up the stakes, and test it out at his day job: as an orthopedic surgeon.Īt the Bronx Montefiore Medical Center in New York, Dr. His obituary included not just his given name, but a long list of the pseudonyms hed been known to use. He uses it to train his border collies to perform complex jumps and twirls on the Frisbee field. In 2009, an old man died in a California nursing home. Today, it has also caught on with humans - helping people to become better dancers, fishermen, golfers, and now, surgeons.įrisbee coach Martin Levy is a big fan of the clicker. "He scared me, and he told me that my father was a crook, that my father took his life savings.The clicker became a popular tool for dog training in the 1980s. "His voice was shaking and I could tell he was elderly and he just sounded like a mean old man to me," Stacya recalls. We justify our failures, and come up with plausible explanations for our actions. One day, the house phone rang, and she picked it up. Stacya says her relationship with her dad changed when she was 12 years old. "That there were artists, and there were ordinary people, and we were artists." "I was told constantly that we were artists," recalls Stacya. He also worked as a promoter for a variety of famous singers, including the Andrews Sisters and Red Foley.īut by the time his daughter Stacya was born, Riley had dropped out of the music business and begun work on his encyclopedia. In the 1940s, he cut country western records, including a few small hits. He dropped out of school in the fifth grade and decided to try his luck as a hillbilly musician. Richard Riley Shepard's interest in music stretched back to his childhood. He spent his days typing away in their small Hollywood apartment on a massive writing project: an encyclopedia that would cover the entire history of American vernacular music. He was handsome and smart and a great cook. As a young girl, Stacya Shepard Silverman idolized her dad.
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