Role of examples in contextualizing novel information: a neuroscience insight

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It is a ubiquitous observation that a difficult concept or topic necessitates the use of relevant examples and analogies for easy understanding. The level of difficulty in the subject may differ, but the unknown path to new information can be easily traversed if it is laid with suitable analogies. Examples dissolve the ambiguity of thoughts and pave the passage to focussed conceptualization. Contemplation over the role of examples in the process of learning drove us to look for neuroscience reasoning. Hence, we present some fundamental aspects of how analogies work to simplify learning, choosing examples during lesson plans and some examples for scientific concepts. …