Contents contributed and discussions participated by Daniel Barber - Neuroscience in ELT

How many neurons make a human brain? Billions fewer than we thought | James Randerson |... - 0 views

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Researchers found that the 100 billion neurons figure is yet another neuromyth (but not far off)

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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!

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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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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

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A quantitative dendritic analysis of wernicke's area in humans. II. Gender, hemispheric... - 2 views

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School really does affect your brain! The longer you're in school, the longer your dendrites grow!

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Our brains, and how they're not as simple as we think | Science | The Observer - 2 views

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Skeptical about the inaccuracies in 'folk neuroscience'.

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Visual Learners Convert Words To Pictures In The Brain And Vice Versa, Says Psychology ... - 2 views

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Some truth in learning styles? Research suggests self-described visual learners more likely to convert linguistically presented information into a visual mental representation.

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Embodied cognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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An area for exploration?

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Differences in Attainment and Performance in a Foreign Language: The Role of Working Me... - 3 views

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working memory phonology research

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Performance in a Foreign Language: The Role of Working Memory Capacity. Complex and hard-to-interpret data.

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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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Working Memory - 2 views

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phonological memory

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A plain English description of Baddeley's model of Working Memory, as well as interviews with the man himself and useful links, diagrams, etc

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Welcome to GoCognitive | GoCognitive - 1 views

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A must. GoCognitive has interviews with the experts (, games and personal tests that help you understand key concepts. Look out for Angela Friederici.

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

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brain allen atlas mapping

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

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Neurolinguistics: structural plasticity in the biling... [Nature. 2004] - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views

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plasticity

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Bilinguals have thicker grey matter

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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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Links for parents, teachers & educators - Centre for Neuroscience in Education - 1 views

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Uni of Cambridge Centre for Neuroscience in Education USEFUL LINKS page

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B is for Body « An A-Z of ELT - 1 views

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Is there a case for incorporating more kinaesthetic practices? Embodied cognition

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Learning styles… a load of rubbish? | One Year in the Life of an English Teacher - 0 views

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Learning styles - links to academic papers, also Multiple Intelligences

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Using Just 10% of Your Brain? Think Again - WSJ.com - 0 views

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The 10% myth, and other misunderstandings

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

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adolescents brain education

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Teens' brains

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