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

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

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

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    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

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

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    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

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

  • 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!"
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    Suzanne Moore argues vociforously against the recent overblown news that men and women's brains are wired differently.
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Brain Rules: Brain development for parents, teachers and business leaders | Brain Rules | - 0 views

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

Brain Research: Adolescents Learn More in Cooperative Groups | MiddleWeb - 0 views

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    Teens' brains
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The bilingual brain - All In The Mind - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Cor... - 3 views

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    Podcast on the Bilingual Brain - children learning two languages, mapping the linguistic brain, code switching, benefits of bilingualism to the cognitive reserve
Daniel Barber

An activity map of the whole zebrafish brain | Mo Costandi | Science | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    First time ever the activity of a whole brain can be seen... lots of pretty colours!
Daniel Barber

Electric shocks to brain help students solve maths problems, scientists say | Science |... - 2 views

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    Electric shocks to brain help students solve maths problems - The Guardian's Ian Sample - see link to same story by the Daily Mail
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Brain Gym redux: I don't know whether to laugh or cry | Five Public Opinions - 2 views

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    BBC Newsnight piece criticising Brain Gym
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Introduction: The Human Brain - New Scientist - 0 views

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      86 billion at last count, depending on age (4 year olds have the most) Oh, and me, of course
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    This is a nice intro to the brain from New Scientist. Good starting point for general info.
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Despite what you've been told, you aren't 'left-brained' or 'right-brained' | Amy Novot... - 0 views

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    no evidence that the study participants had a stronger left or right-sided brain network
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Researchers map brain areas vital to understanding language - 0 views

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    Using subjects with brain lesions, scienists are mapping cgnitive processes involved in decoding texts - top-down processing to you and me
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Male and female brains wired differently, scans reveal | Science | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Maps of neural circuitry show women's brains are suited to social skills and memory, men's perception and co-ordination
Daniel Barber

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

  • 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
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    Beautifullywritten argument for a messy evolution of language in community and across the brain, not boxed in to a language organ.
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How Barbara Arrowsmith-Young rebuilt her own brain | Science | The Guardian - 0 views

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    A personal story of plasticity. Barbara Arrowsmith Young had severe learning disabilities but trained herself out of them when she realised that the brain can and does change.
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Glass brain flythrough - 0 views

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    A dazzling imaging combo with extra sparklers for a dramatic visualisation of brain activity.
Daniel Barber

The architecture of the chess player's brain. - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views

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    So chess shrinks the brain. So does porn and dope smoking. What's clear is that nothing is clear.
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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.
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  • 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

How your brain likes to be treated at revision time | Education | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

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    Revising tips from a neuroscientist
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