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• 04 Oct 09
  

  Jenny nee Murray

  learning research science neuroscience brain intelligence

• 21 Sep 09
  

  Laura Deisley

  learning neuroscience brain processing 21stc

• 19 Sep 09
  

  Fredrik Heintz
  • One of the main themes emerging at the DOM meeting was that the foundation of successful learning is improving executive function - a collection of cognitive processes important for self-control and focusing on the task at hand.
  • Various studies presented at the meeting showed that improving a child's executive function could be achieved with relatively small changes, for example, by altering the timetabling of exercise sessions or encouraging the learning of a musical instrument
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  • • Posner found that children between 18 and 21 months old with a particularly active variant of the COMT gene, which leads to less dopamine transmission, showed improved attention compared with those carrying other variants. The children also responded especially well to high-quality parenting (Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.05.059).
    • "Regular exercise breaks during the school day will become more popular as a means of raising academic standards and fostering mental and physical health," predicts Paul Howard-Jones at the University of Bristol, UK.
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  d major

  RT @esolcourses: RT @kukukukuku Rt @significance neuroscience and teaching: http://tinyurl.com/rytpja interesting reading! [from http://twitter.com/daylemajor/statuses/4050421735]

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• 18 Sep 09
  

  isaac Mao

  Brain

  • NEUROSCIENCE could do for schools what biomedical research has done for healthcare. That's the conclusion of the Decade of the Mind (DOM) symposium last week in Berlin, Germany, to discuss how the latest findings could be used to improve education.

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

    "In medicine, we have an excellent system in place to go from basic research to clinical practice, while in neuroscience we have the basic understanding of how the brain learns but still need to figure out how to translate this into the classroom," says Manfred Spitzer of the University of Ulm in Germany, one of the conference organisers. With brain imaging and, increasingly, genetic studies now complementing psychology research, a host of new findings could inform teachers about the conditions in which our brains can be primed to learn best.

• 17 Sep 09
  

  Clif King

  improve learning for children

  brain science teaching neuroscience psychology

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  Daniel Craig

  Interesting piece. It's tough to verify everything because a subscription is required for most of the links. I'd really like to verify the "myth" of multiple intelligences. It seems that they misunderstand Garder. Not sure, though.

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