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Using Just 10% of Your Brain? Think Again - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    The 10% myth, and other misunderstandings
Daniel Barber

Taylor & Francis Online :: Neuromythologies in education - Educational Research - Volum... - 2 views

  • label children with V, A and K shirts
  • What is possibly more insidious is that focusing on one sensory modality flies in the face of the brain's natural interconnectivity. VAK
  • input modalities in the brain are interlinked: visual with auditory; visual with motor; motor with auditory; visual with taste; and so on.
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  • the brain sees with its ears and touch, and hears with its eyes.
  • as primates, we are predominantly processors of visual information.
  • Eating does not engage just taste, but smell, tactile (inside the mouth), auditory and visual sensations
  • Learning a language, and the practice of it, requires the coordinated use of visual, auditory and kinaesthetic modalities, in addition to memory, emotion, will, thinking and imagination
  • There is indeed such a neural concourse, in the parieto-temporo-occipital ‘association’ cortex in each cerebral hemisphere
  • Fortunately, many teachers have not been taken in. Ironically, VAK has become, in the hands of practitioners, a recipe for a mixed-modality pedagogy where lessons have explicit presentations of material in V, A and K modes. Teachers quickly observed that their pupils' so-called learning styles were not stable, that the expressions of V-, A- and K-ness varied with the demands of the lessons, as they should
  • extrapolations from the lab to the classroom need to be made with considerable caution
  • The coloured blobs on brain maps representing areas of significant activation (so-called ‘lighting up’) are like the peaks of sub-oceanic mountains which rise above sea level
  • considerable complexity.
  • (fMRI),
  • the images are the end-result of many years' work on understanding the quantum mechanics of nuclear magnetic resonance phenomena, the development of the engineering of superconducting magnets, the application of inverse fast Fourier transforms to large data sets and the refinement of high-speed computing hardware and software to analyse large data sets across multiple parameters.
  • these neural contributions to intelligence are necessary for all school subjects, and all other aspects of cognition
  • no individual modules in the brain which correspond directly to the school curriculum
  • Neuromyths typically ignore such interconnectivity in their pursuit of simplicity
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    An academic paper and review of neuromyths. Some very positive things to say and some fantastic quotes!
Daniel Barber

A quantitative dendritic analysis of wernicke's area in humans. II. Gender, hemispheric... - 2 views

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    School really does affect your brain! The longer you're in school, the longer your dendrites grow!
Daniel Barber

Medical Xpress: Mama or dada? Research looks at what words are easiest for kids to learn - 0 views

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    Why we teach in lexical sets
Daniel Barber

To read better, improve your pronunciation? | elt-resourceful - 2 views

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    More on the phonological loop from a ELT perspective
Daniel Barber

Six Things » Blog Archive » Six Things About Multiple Intelligences That You ... - 2 views

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    Phillip Kerr on MI
Daniel Barber

Evidence Based EFL: Learning styles: facts and fictions - 0 views

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    Learning styles: facts and fictions
Daniel Barber

Frontiers | Musical expertise and foreign speech perception | Frontiers in Systems Neur... - 0 views

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    Musicians percieve prosodic differences in foreign languages better than non-musicians
Daniel Barber

Lower blood sugars may be good for the brain - 0 views

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    Two seemingly contradictory investigations. People with lower blood sugar fared better at memory tests, but is there a direct link between better memory and sugar, or is lower sugar levels indicative of greater dietary awareness, which may accompany better general awareness, including a metacognitive awareness propitious to all cognitive functions, including memory? Then a link to a report suggesting CHOCOLATE is good for the memory! WHat's the answer? Sugar-free chocolate?!
Daniel Barber

Medical Xpress: Bilingualism over the lifespan - 0 views

  • address a significant challenge in current bilingualism research, the variability in study outcomes
  • the complexities of individual bilingual behavior
  • differences among bilingual speakers
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    Bilinguals aren't all the same, which may explain some of the conflicting findings about cognitive advantage with bilingualism.
Daniel Barber

Executive function and bilingualism in young and older adults | Frontiers in Behavioral... - 1 views

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    Casting doubt on advantages for bilinguals n executive function tasks
Daniel Barber

Motor imagery - sports exercise boosts motor imagery patterns - 1 views

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    Motor imagery is used in rehabilitating patients who have lost motor control and is shown to suport motor execution. Could imagining speech acts in an L2 support real speech?
Daniel Barber

Speech motor brain regions are differentially recruited during perception of native and... - 1 views

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    Very promising research from point of view of classroom activities.
Daniel Barber

Is there a tape recorder in your head? How the brain stores and retrieves musical melod... - 1 views

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    Fascinating synthesis of research about musical memory with analogies with technology (tape recorders, etc). Embodied cognition, too, as auditory pathways seem to have been coopted from motor coordination. Musical recording = temporal event recorded in spacial way.
Daniel Barber

Medical Xpress: Learning in your sleep - the right way - 0 views

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    Learn vocab by hearing it in your sleep
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