AEL is a process that builds on the way the brain learns-through trial and error. It reduces the data to fundamental components and helps the brain very rapidly build its database. With the database in place, the brain has the background information to inspect the new image on the scanner, compare it to stored images and decide if it passes or fails the "safe" decision criteria training has given it.
When a painting or a scene or vista is first observed, the brain takes in a level of information to give it an impression of what is there. To get an idea of how this works, try walking into a strange dark room and flash the lights on for a second and then off. How much detail will you remember? How much less after five minutes passes? Studies show the amount of detail remembered is small and diminishes over time. If you study the room with the lights on, the amount of detail remembered rises but still diminishes over time. If you repeatedly study the room and are repeatedly tested on the detail, it will eventually be mapped in your brain, and you will become an expert on that room.
AEL presents the details to the learner such that the brain processes them very rapidly. The information is also presented in a special way that allows the brain to associate and tag the data for commonalities and differences. The data is chunked very rapidly into increasingly complex chunks, like those an expert develops. Because information is presented similarly to the way experiential information is normally gathered, the brain acquires experience at a highly accelerated pace.
