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YouTube - Music and the Mind - 0 views

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  • Tero Toivanen on 13 Jul 09
     
    Aniruddh Patel's presentation about: What can music teach us about the brain? What can brain science teach us about music?
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The Teaching Company Free Lectures - 0 views

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  • Tero Toivanen on 13 Dec 09
     
    Excellent video lecture about learning, memory and brain by Jeanette Norden Ph.D. from Vanderbit University.
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12 Findings on Mind, Brain & Education | Getting Smart - 1 views

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  • Tero Toivanen on 19 Mar 12
     
    Important findings!
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Facts and Myths About the Brain and Learning « Learning Landscape - 0 views

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  • Tero Toivanen on 23 May 09
     
    Facts and Myths About the Brain and Learning
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Adult Learning - Neuroscience - How to Train the Aging Brain - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • One explanation for how this occurs comes from Deborah M. Burke, a professor of psychology at Pomona College in California. Dr. Burke has done research on “tots,” those tip-of-the-tongue times when you know something but can’t quite call it to mind. Dr. Burke’s research shows that such incidents increase in part because neural connections, which receive, process and transmit information, can weaken with disuse or age.
  • But she also finds that if you are primed with sounds that are close to those you’re trying to remember — say someone talks about cherry pits as you try to recall Brad Pitt’s name — suddenly the lost name will pop into mind. The similarity in sounds can jump-start a limp brain connection. (It also sometimes works to silently run through the alphabet until landing on the first letter of the wayward word.)
  • Recently, researchers have found even more positive news. The brain, as it traverses middle age, gets better at recognizing the central idea, the big picture. If kept in good shape, the brain can continue to build pathways that help its owner recognize patterns and, as a consequence, see significance and even solutions much faster than a young person can.
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  • The trick is finding ways to keep brain connections in good condition and to grow more of them.
  • Educators say that, for adults, one way to nudge neurons in the right direction is to challenge the very assumptions they have worked so hard to accumulate while young. With a brain already full of well-connected pathways, adult learners should “jiggle their synapses a bit” by confronting thoughts that are contrary to their own, says Dr. Taylor, who is 66.
  • Teaching new facts should not be the focus of adult education, she says. Instead, continued brain development and a richer form of learning may require that you “bump up against people and ideas” that are different. In a history class, that might mean reading multiple viewpoints, and then prying open brain networks by reflecting on how what was learned has changed your view of the world.
  • Such stretching is exactly what scientists say best keeps a brain in tune: get out of the comfort zone to push and nourish your brain. Do anything from learning a foreign language to taking a different route to work.
  • “As adults we have these well-trodden paths in our synapses,” Dr. Taylor says. “We have to crack the cognitive egg and scramble it up. And if you learn something this way, when you think of it again you’ll have an overlay of complexity you didn’t have before — and help your brain keep developing as well.”
  • Tero Toivanen on 02 Jan 10
     
    Dr. Burke has done research on "tots," those tip-of-the-tongue times when you know something but can't quite call it to mind. Dr. Burke's research shows that such incidents increase in part because neural connections, which receive, process and transmit information, can weaken with disuse or age.
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YouTube - Man without a memory - Clive Wearing [BBC - Time: Daytime] - 3 views

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  • Tero Toivanen on 03 Jan 10
     
    Man who don't have memory and is constantly living in the present moment.
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  • Ruth Howard on 04 Jan 10
     
    I love that ' bump up against' people and ideas counter to those which we' ve previously aligned-that' s kind of how I see aging gracefully-being able to see many more and others viewpoints-otherwise aging can seem like becoming caricatures of ourselves-we so believe our own thoughts (beliefs are after all only our much/most repeated thoughts!) and there' s no room for anyone or anything else! Mmmmmm yeah but now to live it!
  • Tero Toivanen on 04 Jan 10
     
    My mother had a stroke and now she has big problems to communicate. She understands allmost everything, but have great problems to express herself speaking. Aging is not easy thing if you have problems with your health.
  • Ruth Howard on 05 Jan 10
     
    Truly! It' s alot slower to align with our preferences for sure when sick. I sincerely recommend www.bruno-groening.org as a resource The Bruno Groning Circle of Friends-all volunteers!. It' s a type of Faith healing that I recognise as quite remarkable. It has strong old world Germanic Christian vibe and/but dont let that put you off the ' healing stream' which is very easy to teach to yourself/your mother and available to all regardless of religious affliations.
  • Tero Toivanen on 05 Jan 10
     
    Thak you for the link : )
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Video Games Help Explain How We Learn - 1 views

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  • Tero Toivanen on 01 Feb 10
     
    These contradictory findings suggest that pre-existing individual differences in the brain might predict variability in learning rates, the authors wrote.
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How The Memory Works In Learning - 3 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 02 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Tero Toivanen on 02 Jan 13
     
    "This introduction to the basics of the neuroscience of learning includes information that should be included in all teacher education programs. It is intentionally brief such that it can be taught in a single day of instruction."
  • David McGavock on 04 Jan 13
     
    Very nice - simple summary for teachers.
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