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The Family That Couldn't Say Hippopotamus - Issue 17: Big Bangs - Nautilus - 1 views

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  • Chomsky
  • language organ
  • Coming out of an era of rapid advances in computer technology, the idea of a discrete, common origin to human language made intuitive sense.
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  • Further study revealed that the FOXP2 gene is relevant to multiple mental abilities and is not strictly a language gene at all.
  • The same gene that regulated language so strongly also regulated other mental faculties, so its very existence appeared to contradict rather than strengthen the idea that language commands its own territory separate from other areas of the brain.
  • the language-as-island idea is also inconsistent with the way evolution typically works. “What I don’t like about the ‘module’ is the idea that it evolved from scratch somehow. In my view, it’s more that existing neural circuits have been adapted for language and speech.
  • language relies on a surprisingly broad neural support system
  • -month-old babies show activation in a number of different brain regions when they hear speech, inclu
  • ding in the cerebellum, which is important for coordinating motor movements
  • The problem with ‘gene for x’ or ‘grammar module y’ is they ignore how something that is the property of an individual is linked to something that is the property of a community
  • language is a distributed object
  • across the human brain and across generations of people
  • Daniel Barber on 30 Sep 14
     
    Beautifullywritten argument for a messy evolution of language in community and across the brain, not boxed in to a language organ.
Daniel Barber

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

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  • Daniel Barber on 24 Oct 13
     
    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

Whole brain learning, suggestopedia and NLP - Overview of various brain functions - 0 views

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brain learning

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  • Daniel Barber on 05 Nov 13
     
    A perfect example of the kind of unmitigated rubbish spouted by 'brain-friendly' educators, who fail to acknowledge the sheer complexity of the brain, and the need for multiple modules of the brain to be employed in a simple task such as discerning differences in a picture.
Daniel Barber

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

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learning styles MI 10% neuroscience education

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  • 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
  • Daniel Barber on 21 Aug 14
     
    An academic paper and review of neuromyths. Some very positive things to say and some fantastic quotes!
Daniel Barber

Brain Explorer :: Allen Brain Atlas: Human Brain - 0 views

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brain allen atlas mapping

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  • Daniel Barber on 05 Feb 13
     
    A free downloadable programme that allows you to explore a 3D representation of a human brain. Whose brain? Who knows?
Daniel Barber

Research, truths, difference, and butterfly wings. « Authentic Teaching - 1 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 22 May 12
     
    About the problem of tracking what helps people learn... Willy Cardoso says: The problem is the constant search for a cause-effect relationships; something to overcome perhaps. Did the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?? We'll never know because, ultimately, causes can't be fully tracked; therefore, explanations of consequences are inevitably incomplete.
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Daniel Barber

So my mushy head is 'hardwired' for girly things, is it? If this is science, I am Richa... - 1 views

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  • I am a girl whose mushy head is "hardwired" for girly things.
  • neuroscience is actually a mass of disciplines: neurology, physiology, psychology, molecular biology and genetics, all of them ramped up by new ways of imaging the brain
  • The interaction between the hemispheres is what counts, but this is less marketable stuff.
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  • All of them confirm what we already know, not what we could know.
  • brain scans are still blunt intruments
  • very clever doctors were more than happy to talk about what they did not know about the brain.
  • quasi-religious status
  • "neurosexism"
  • The truth is our brains are much more similar than they are different. That's not a headline you will ever read, is it? "Men and women: much the same!"
  • Daniel Barber on 05 Dec 13
     
    Suzanne Moore argues vociforously against the recent overblown news that men and women's brains are wired differently.
Daniel Barber

Brain Rules: Brain development for parents, teachers and business leaders | Brain Rules | - 0 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 01 Apr 13
     
    A wonderful site for lots of general info on the brain. A great place to start for the beginner!
Daniel Barber

A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool | Edutopia - 1 views

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gaming dopamine motivation

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  • Daniel Barber on 27 Jun 13
     
    Dopamine and gaming. Also a video from Judy Willis.
Daniel Barber

PLOS ONE: An Evaluation of the Left-Brain vs. Right-Brain Hypothesis with Resting State... - 0 views

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left-brain right-brain

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  • Daniel Barber on 09 Jan 14
     
    Left / Right Brain bollocks. A study shows fairly conclusively that the idea one side of our brain is more dominant than the other - and by extension, that this dictates what kind of person you are - is little more than a myth.
Daniel Barber

Glass brain flythrough - 0 views

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brain neuroscience mapping visualization

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  • Daniel Barber on 18 Mar 14
     
    A dazzling imaging combo with extra sparklers for a dramatic visualisation of brain activity.
Daniel Barber

A shocking discovery: Zapping the brain with electricity during maths lessons can boost... - 1 views

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brain maths electricity mail education

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  • Daniel Barber on 17 May 13
     
    The same story in the Dail Mail as teh Guardian's, this by Nick McDermott
Daniel Barber

Medical Xpress: Fruit and vegetable consumption could be as good for your mental as you... - 1 views

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diet mental health

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  • Daniel Barber on 24 Sep 14
     
    Your 5-a-day has a link to your mental well-being.
Daniel Barber

From photography to supercomputers: how we see ourselves in our inventions | Science | ... - 2 views

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brain neuroscience

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  • we inevitably saw ourselves in our machines
  • ere is a danger that we'll sideline aspects of human nature that don't easily fit the concept
  • What starts as a tool to help us understand ourselves, begins to replace us in our understanding
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  • We tend to understand ourselves through our inventions
  • Daniel Barber on 27 Jul 14
     
    A brilliant essay about our metaphors for the mind, and their origins in technology
Daniel Barber

The Trouble With Brain Science - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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trouble brain science

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  • What we are really looking for is a bridge, some way of connecting two separate scientific languages — those of neuroscience and psychology.
  • example is the discovery of DNA
  • We know that there must be some lawful relation between assemblies of neurons and the elements of thought, but we are currently at a loss to describe those laws.
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  • words
  • words
  • might
  • as anyone in a field richer in data than theory (like weather forecasting) can tell you, amassing data is only a start
  • Daniel Barber on 17 Jul 14
     
    Essay on the limitations of neuroscience
Daniel Barber

Differences in Attainment and Performance in a Foreign Language: The Role of Working Me... - 3 views

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working memory phonology research

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  • Daniel Barber on 13 Feb 13
     
    Performance in a Foreign Language: The Role of Working Memory Capacity. Complex and hard-to-interpret data.
Daniel Barber

Learn a second language to slow ageing brain's decline - health - 03 June 2014 - New Sc... - 0 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 05 Jun 14
     
    As if we needed a reason to learn languages!... Here's another
Daniel Barber

A dominant hemisphere for handedness and language? - 0 views

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hemisphere language

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  • Daniel Barber on 05 Jul 14
     
    Location of language areas in the brain is independent of left- or right-handedness, except for a very small proportion of left-handed individuals.
Daniel Barber

B is for Body « An A-Z of ELT - 1 views

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kinaesthetic

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  • Daniel Barber on 11 Dec 12
     
    Is there a case for incorporating more kinaesthetic practices? Embodied cognition
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