| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxi, 457 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
An overview of the brain. How our brain constructs our mental world / Richard Restak -- Mirrors in the mind / Giacomo Rizzolatti, Leonardo Fogassi, and Vittorio Gallese -- Alphabetized entries from How to explain a brain / Robert Sylwester -- The brain in the classroom : the brain-based learning debate. Neuroscience and education / Usha Goswami -- In search of ... brain-based education / John T. Bruer -- Learning not by chance : enrichment in the classroom / Marian C. Diamond and Janet Hopson -- Mind and brain / John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking -- The thinking brain : memory, cognition, and intelligence. Learning and remembering / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Uta Frith -- Who owns intelligence? / Howard Gardner -- The balance theory of wisdom / Robert J. Sternberg -- Remembrance of emotions past / Joseph LeDoux -- The feeling brain : emotional and social foundations. We feel, therefore we learn : the relevance of affective and social neuroscience to education / Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and Antonio Damasio -- Selections from Why zebras don't get ulcers / Robert M. Sapolsky -- The effect of violence and stress in kids' brains / Ronald Kotulak -- The learning brain : language, reading, and math. The literate brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Uta Frith -- Why some smart people can't read / Sally Shaywitz -- What happens in the brain when children read / Patricia Wolfe and Pamela Nevills -- Small heads for big calculations / Stanislas Dehaene -- Math skills / James P. Byrnes -- The learning brain : the arts. The brain and the arts / David A. Sousa -- The role of the arts in transforming consciousness : education is the process of learning how to invent yourself / Elliot W. Eisner -- My favorite thing : why do we like the music we like? / Daniel J. Levitin -- The exceptional brain : when it works differently. Exploring exceptional brains / Eric Jensen -- Selections from The minds of boys / Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens -- The great continuum : diagnosing autism / Temple Grandin -- Broken mirrors : a theory of autism / Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Lindsay M. Oberman. |
| Subject |
Learning -- Physiological aspects.
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Cognition in children -- Physiological aspects.
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Brain -- Physiology.
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Learning, Psychology of.
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Brain -- physiology. |
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Cognition -- physiology. |
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Learning -- physiology. |
| Added Author |
Jossey-Bass Inc.
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| Added Title |
Brain and learning |
| ISBN |
9780787962418 (pbk.) |
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0787962414 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
NLM 101312385 |
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AU@ 000042053748 |
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NZ1 11601803 |
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IG# 9780787962418 |
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