Skip to main content

Home/ Neuroscience in ELT/ Contents contributed and discussions participated by Daniel Barber

Contents contributed and discussions participated by Daniel Barber

Simple Middle Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics
Daniel Barber

Motor imagery - sports exercise boosts motor imagery patterns - 1 views

journal.frontiersin.org/...full

shared by Daniel Barber on 27 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 27 Aug 14
     
    Motor imagery is used in rehabilitating patients who have lost motor control and is shown to suport motor execution. Could imagining speech acts in an L2 support real speech?
Daniel Barber

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

www.tandfonline.com/...00131880802082518

learning styles MI 10% neuroscience education

shared by Daniel Barber on 21 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • ...14 more annotations...
  • 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

Executive function and bilingualism in young and older adults | Frontiers in Behavioral... - 1 views

journal.frontiersin.org/...full

executive function bilingualism

shared by Daniel Barber on 18 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 18 Aug 14
     
    Casting doubt on advantages for bilinguals n executive function tasks
Daniel Barber

PsycNET - Display Record - 0 views

psycnet.apa.org/...2014-31081-001

learning styles

shared by Daniel Barber on 31 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 31 Jul 14
     
    More empirical evidence that LS just aren't there!
Daniel Barber

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

www.theguardian.com/...-inventions-brain-neuroscience

brain neuroscience

shared by Daniel Barber on 27 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • 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
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • 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 Benefits of Failing at French - NYTimes.com - 1 views

mobile.nytimes.com/...16alexander.html

benefits french

shared by Daniel Barber on 26 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 26 Jul 14
     
    Language learning improves mental dexterity in older learners.
Daniel Barber

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

www.nytimes.com/...rouble-with-brain-science.html

trouble brain science

shared by Daniel Barber on 17 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • 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

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard - Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking - 0 views

m.pss.sagepub.com/...1159.abstract

shared by Daniel Barber on 10 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 10 Jul 14
     
    Studies show that handwriting may help process info and learn better than typing.
Daniel Barber

A dominant hemisphere for handedness and language? - 0 views

medicalxpress.com/...phere-handedness-language.html

hemisphere language

shared by Daniel Barber on 05 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • 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

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

www.newscientist.com/...dn25671

shared by Daniel Barber on 05 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 05 Jun 14
     
    As if we needed a reason to learn languages!... Here's another
Daniel Barber

Flying Through Inner Space - Phenomena: The Loom - 1 views

phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/...flying-through-inner-space

flying space mapping

shared by Daniel Barber on 22 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 22 Mar 14
     
    More brain fly-throughs. Pretty
Daniel Barber

Glass brain flythrough - 0 views

psychneuro.wordpress.com

brain neuroscience mapping visualization

shared by Daniel Barber on 18 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 18 Mar 14
     
    A dazzling imaging combo with extra sparklers for a dramatic visualisation of brain activity.
Daniel Barber

BBC R4 - Inside Science, Switching senses - Undermining the critical period? - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/b03szxdc

critical period plasticity aging brain

shared by Daniel Barber on 07 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 07 Feb 14
     
    The Age Myth about L2 learning gets another bashing. Turns out the original experiments that helped establish the notion of a critical period for eyesight may be short-sighted! Patrick Kanold, from the University of Maryland: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/02/05/272092118/seeing-less-helps-the-brain-hear-more
Daniel Barber

BishopBlog: What is educational neuroscience? - 0 views

deevybee.blogspot.co.uk/...-educational-neuroscience.html

brain research education

shared by Daniel Barber on 28 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 28 Jan 14
     
    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?
Daniel Barber

Drink two espressos to enhance long-term memory - health - 12 January 2014 - New Scientist - 1 views

www.newscientist.com/...dn24855

learning

shared by Daniel Barber on 16 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 16 Jan 14
     
    Give our students coffee to help them learn. Another reason adults are better learners than kids? ;o)
Daniel Barber

Pictorial mnemonics and sound contrasting yield more effective English teaching - 0 views

m.medicalxpress.com/...ntrasting-yield-effective.html

mnemonics english teaching learning phonology

shared by Daniel Barber on 11 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • images they used linked the shapes of the alphabet letters with images of Japanese words that begin with those letters
  • Daniel Barber on 11 Jan 14
     
    Evidence for pedagogic sense in involving learners' knowledge of L1 to aid their acquisition of L2. Learners associate English letters with Japanese words as a mnemonic. Also, explicit differentiation of the two language systems' phonic systems seems to help better understanding of English in Japanese children.
Daniel Barber

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

www.theatlantic.com/...282952

extensive reading brain changes novel

shared by Daniel Barber on 10 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 10 Jan 14
     
    Initial signs that there may be good evidence to come for extensive reading
Daniel Barber

£6m fund brings together neuroscientists and teachers to improve learning (Wi... - 1 views

www.wired.co.uk/...-education-investment-wellcome

neuroscience education research funding

shared by Daniel Barber on 10 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 10 Jan 14
     
    6m pounds of interest in evidence-based ed!
Daniel Barber

Neuromyths and why they persist in the classroom · Blog · Sense about Science - 3 views

www.senseaboutscience.org/...-they-persist-in-the-classroom

classroom blog sense science education learning styles MI

shared by Daniel Barber on 10 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 10 Jan 14
     
    Another overview looking at neuromyths in education and why they persist
« First ‹ Previous 41 - 60 of 134 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page