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Medical Xpress: Bilingualism over the lifespan - 0 views

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bilingualism learning cognitive advantages

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  • 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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  • real-world contexts
  • Daniel Barber on 03 Nov 14
     
    Bilinguals aren't all the same, which may explain some of the conflicting findings about cognitive advantage with bilingualism.
Daniel Barber

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

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tape recorder musical embodied cognition

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  • Daniel Barber on 12 Sep 14
     
    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

Does reading (and learning a language) require two brains? « Jeremy Harmer's ... - 1 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 12 Feb 13
     
    Jeremy's enthusiastic 'reading' of cognitive research that suggests extensive reading for pleasure and intensive reading for study are physiologically different processes. He posits that extensive reading points to 'acquisition' rather than more conscious 'learning'
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Lower blood sugars may be good for the brain - 0 views

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blood brain research memory

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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

Ready to learn? The science behind the experiment - video | Science | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

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brain neuroscience education

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  • Daniel Barber on 15 Apr 13
     
    Guardian mini documentary outlining the state of neuroeducation, especially looking at the importance of sleep, nutrition and exercise on children's cognitive abilities and readiness to learn.
Daniel Barber

The Bitter Fight Over the Benefits of Bilingualism - The Atlantic - 0 views

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bilingualism

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  • Daniel Barber on 12 Feb 16
     
    Contradictory evidence that bilingualism affords cognitive advantages
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The bilingual brain - All In The Mind - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Cor... - 3 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 07 Mar 13
     
    Podcast on the Bilingual Brain - children learning two languages, mapping the linguistic brain, code switching, benefits of bilingualism to the cognitive reserve
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Embodied cognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 13 Feb 13
     
    An area for exploration?
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'Bilingual Advantage' In Cognition Isn't Based On Evidence - 0 views

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bilingual advantage research

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  • Daniel Barber on 08 Dec 14
     
    The complexities of publication bias and how it might sway public acceptance of dubious scientific assertions.
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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Speech motor brain regions are differentially recruited during perception of native and... - 1 views

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speech motor brain regions multisensory

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  • Daniel Barber on 16 Sep 14
     
    Very promising research from point of view of classroom activities.
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

The mind isn't locked in the brain but extends far beyond it | Aeon Ideas - 1 views

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embodied cognition

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  • Daniel Barber on 10 Oct 16
     
    The Parity Principle
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