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Self-organizational pedagogy on the edge of chaos - new venues for science teacher educationThis paper describes our attempt to develop a pedagogical practice informed by the concepts of complexity applied to education. The context of our study was the science methods course within an elementary teacher education program. The practice, described here, has overlapped instruction and ...
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Virtual Reality May Help Arm Minds for CombatBrainHealth’s HRSA-supported research will employ a highly immersive multisensory brain-training program integrating haptics (involving the body’s sense of touch and feel), vision, and audition. A robotic virtual environment (hrVR) will be used to strengthen brain performance, including building ...
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Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix | h+ MagazineWhen surveying the goals of transhumanists, I found it striking how heavily many of them favor conventional engineering. This seems inefficient and inelegant, since such engineering reproduces slowly, clumsily and imperfectly, what biological systems have fine-tuned for eons, from nanobots ...
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Your Brain on Books. How the mind makes sense of written language | Scientific AmericanIn his new book, “Reading in the Brain,” neuroscientist S. Dehaene describes his quest to understand an astounding feat that most of us take for granted: translating marks on a page (or a screen) into language. (...) We humans would be liberated from our past instincts and free to invent ...
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Revisiting FOXP2 and the origins of language : Not Exactly Rocket ScienceToday, a new paper published in Nature adds another chapter to the story of FOXP2, a gene with important roles in speech and language. The FOXP2 story is a fascinating tale that I covered in New Scientist last year. It's one of the pieces I'm proudest of so I'm reprinting it here with kind ...
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The Mind Is a Mirror: Scientific AmericanThe discovery of mirror neurons in the brains of macaques about ten years ago sent shockwaves through the neuroscience community. Mirror neurons are cells that fire both when a monkey performs a certain task and when it observes another individual performing that same task. With the ...
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Philosophy of mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPhilosophy of mind is a branch of modern analytic philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness and their relationship to the physical body, particularly the brain. The mind-body problem, i.e. the relationship of the mind to the ...
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Brain maps help guide you through large-scale space, researchers findLost? Not sure how to get home? Trying to find your way through the mall or an airport? Help is on the way, thanks to a stack of cells, or neurons, in your head. They're mostly on the left side of the brain in males, on the right in females. Scientists have long known that a small, ...
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Science Centric | News | Study shows that sleep deprivation can negatively affect information processingA study in the 1 November issue of the journal Sleep shows that sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a more automatic, implicit process of information categorisation (information-integration) to a more controlled, explicit process (rule-based). This use of rule-based strategies in ...
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Basics - A Molecule of Motivation, Dopamine Excels at Its Task - NYTimes.comA Molecule of Motivation, Dopamine Excels at Its Task If you’ve ever had a problem with rodents and woken up to find that mice had chewed their way through the Cheerios, the Famous Amos, three packages of Ramen noodles, and even that carton of baker’s yeast you had bought in a fit of “Ladies ...
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