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

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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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Study: Reading a Novel Changes Your Brain - Julia Ryan - The Atlantic - 1 views

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Initial signs that there may be good evidence to come for extensive reading

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

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More on the phonological loop from a ELT perspective

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Fluorescent protein lets us read a fish's thoughts - life - 31 January 2013 - New Scien... - 0 views

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Bonkers.

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BishopBlog: What is educational neuroscience? - 0 views

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Suppose I find out that the left angular gyrus becomes more active as children learn to read. What is a teacher supposed to do with that information?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Suppose I find out that the left angular gyrus becomes more active as children learn to read. What is a teacher supposed to do with that information? </div>

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Dead fish shows mental activity - 1 views

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A serious paper on why we perhaps should not trust anything we read about the brain. DON'T TRUST FINDINGS!

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The Marco Polo of Neuroscience - V.S Ramachandran - All In The Mind - ABC Radio Nationa... - 0 views

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Podcast interview with top neuroscientist V.S Ramachandran

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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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Radenig jeblmud up ltretes sowhs how cmlpoex it is! - 1 views

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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.
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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
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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.
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brain scans are still blunt intruments
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very clever doctors were more than happy to talk about what they did not know about the brain.
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quasi-religious status
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"neurosexism"
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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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Daniel Barber on 05 Dec 13

Suzanne Moore argues vociforously against the recent overblown news that men and women's brains are wired differently.

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