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Talking to ourselves: the science of the little voice in your head | Peter Moseley | Sc... - 0 views

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Article about the internalisation of "external", out-loud speech

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La neurociencia demuestra que el elemento esencial en el aprendizaje es la em... - 0 views

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emoción aprendizaje Francisco Mora

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Learning is best when emotions are engaged and attention is on. IN SPANISH

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How the language you speak changes your view of the world - 0 views

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German speakers have a holistic worldview whereas English speakers focus only on the action

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Medical Xpress: Better breakfast, better grades - 0 views

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A clue as to one of the possible causes of the link between lifestyle (as dictated by social class amongst other things) and learning. Breakfast counts!

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Metastudy of the research looking at fundamental flaws in interpretation surrounding critical period hypothesis.

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Medical Xpress: Research sheds new light on the hierarchy of the senses - 0 views

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Occulocentrism evidence - Another nail in the coffin for LS. vision ranks first and hearing ranks in second place, followed by the subordinate senses of touch, taste and smell.

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'Bilingual Advantage' In Cognition Isn't Based On Evidence - 0 views

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The complexities of publication bias and how it might sway public acceptance of dubious scientific assertions.

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BBC - Future - Psychology: A simple trick to improve your memory - 0 views

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Whether to drop items from your revision programme once they have been learnt. Or not.

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Age of language learning shapes brain structure: A cortical thickness study of bilingua... - 0 views

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Age of language learning shapes brain structure: A cortical thickness study of bilingual and monolingual individuals

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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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Medical Xpress: Bilingualism over the lifespan - 0 views

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address a significant challenge in current bilingualism research, the variability in study outcomes
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the complexities of individual bilingual behavior
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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.

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New research to investigate if neuroscience can improve teaching and learning in schools - 1 views

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Wellcome Trust turns its attention, an coffers, to neuroeducation - 6 projects

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Curiosity improves memory by tapping into the brain's reward system | Science | The Gua... - 2 views

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

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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.
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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.
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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.
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language relies on a surprisingly broad neural support system
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-month-old babies show activation in a number of different brain regions when they hear speech, inclu
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ding in the cerebellum, which is important for coordinating motor movements
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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
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language is a distributed object
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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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Medical Xpress: Fruit and vegetable consumption could be as good for your mental as you... - 1 views

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Your 5-a-day has a link to your mental well-being.

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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.

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>

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Exercise before school may reduce ADHD symptoms in kids - 1 views

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What happens in the brain when you learn a language? | Education | theguardian.com - 2 views

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Report of a number of interesting studies into SLA.

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