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

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  • Daniel Barber on 19 Mar 13
     
    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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  • Daniel Barber on 19 Mar 13
     
    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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  • Daniel Barber on 11 Mar 13
     
    Podcast interview with top neuroscientist V.S Ramachandran
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Quest for the connectome: scientists investigate ways of mapping the brain | Science | ... - 3 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 08 May 12
     
    Scientists consider the almost impossible task of drawing a circuit diagram for all 86 billion neurons and how they connect up: the 'connectome'. A fantastic video showing cutting edge technology seeing the neural pathways as never before!
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Research, truths, difference, and butterfly wings. « Authentic Teaching - 1 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 22 May 12
     
    About the problem of tracking what helps people learn... Willy Cardoso says: The problem is the constant search for a cause-effect relationships; something to overcome perhaps. Did the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?? We'll never know because, ultimately, causes can't be fully tracked; therefore, explanations of consequences are inevitably incomplete.
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Brain-Based Learning: The New Paradigm of Teaching: Amazon.co.uk: Eric P. Jensen: Books - 0 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 26 May 12
     
    Interesting practical book on education and neuroscience, but jumps too quickly to conclusions? eg See vitamins & exercise - worth researching further??? Probably bunk
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B is for Body « An A-Z of ELT - 1 views

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

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  • Daniel Barber on 04 Feb 13
     
    Bilinguals have thicker grey matter
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Welcome to GoCognitive | GoCognitive - 1 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 12 Feb 13
     
    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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To read better, improve your pronunciation? | elt-resourceful - 2 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 10 Mar 13
     
    More on the phonological loop from a ELT perspective
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Working Memory - 2 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 10 Mar 13
     
    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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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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Differences in Attainment and Performance in a Foreign Language: The Role of Working Me... - 3 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 13 Feb 13
     
    Performance in a Foreign Language: The Role of Working Memory Capacity. Complex and hard-to-interpret data.
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A quantitative dendritic analysis of wernicke's area in humans. II. Gender, hemispheric... - 2 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 07 Mar 13
     
    School really does affect your brain! The longer you're in school, the longer your dendrites grow!
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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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Visual Learners Convert Words To Pictures In The Brain And Vice Versa, Says Psychology ... - 2 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 26 Feb 13
     
    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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Our brains, and how they're not as simple as we think | Science | The Observer - 2 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 07 Mar 13
     
    Skeptical about the inaccuracies in 'folk neuroscience'.
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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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Brain Explorer :: Allen Brain Atlas: Human Brain - 0 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 05 Feb 13
     
    A free downloadable programme that allows you to explore a 3D representation of a human brain. Whose brain? Who knows?
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