Tag: brain and learning


Jan
2021

teens brain

categories: Gen Z, learning

Students should learn about their own brains and how they’re changing because it can be empowering for young people to know and understand more about why they might be feeling a certain way.

Posted by MindShift on Sunday, January 24, 2021

Why Teens Should Understand Their Own Brains (And Why Their Teachers Should, Too!)

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51237/why-teens-should-understand-their-own-brains-and-why-their-teachers-should-too

a new book, Inventing Ourselves, The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain — where she dives into the research and the science — and offers insights into how young adults are thinking, problem-solving and learning.

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more on the brain in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=brain


Jul
2020

brain activity study

categories: brain, learning

Duke University researchers say every brain activity study you’ve ever read is wrong

https://www.fastcompany.com/90520750/duke-university-researchers-say-every-brain-activity-study-youve-ever-read-is-wrong

The researchers reexamined 56 peer-reviewed, published papers that conducted 90 fMRI experiments, some by leaders in the field, and also looked at the results of so-called “test/retest” fMRIs, where 65 subjects were asked to do the same tasks months apart. They found that of seven measures of brain function, none had consistent readings.

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more on the brain in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=brain


Apr
2019

prime the brain for learning

categories: brain, contemplative pedagogy, learning, mindfulness

Sep
2018

new brain cells

categories: learning

(thank you Mike Pickle: https://www.facebook.com/groups/190982954245635/permalink/2110516852292226/)

Mysterious new brain cell found in people

By Kelly Servick

“rosehip neurons,” were found in the uppermost layer of the cortex, which is home to many different types of neurons that inhibit the activity of other neurons.

the set of genes expressed in these inhibitory rosehip neurons doesn’t closely match any previously identified cell in the mouse, suggesting they have no analog in the rodent often used as a model for humans,

The locations of their points of contact on other neurons suggest they’re in a powerful position to put the brakes on other incoming, excitatory signals—by which complex circuits of neurons activate one another throughout the brain.

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more on learning and the brain in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=brain+learning

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