Caine and Caine (1991) present the following conclusions about learning and the brain:

1.	Every brain is a uniquely-organized system.
2.	The brain is a social organ.
3.	The search for meaning is innate.
4.	The search for meaning occurs through “patterning.”
5.	Emotions are critical to patterning.
6.	Every brain simultaneously perceives and creates parts and wholes.
7.	Learning involves focused and peripheral perception.
8.	Learning always involves conscious and unconscious processes.
9.	We have at least two ways of organizing memory.
10.	Learning is developmental.
11.	Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat.

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