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The majority of the material collected on this site, and presented in the animations is taken from the book Overschooled but Undereducated , by John Abbott and Heather MacTaggart. Further ideas can be found in the resources listed to the right. Overschooled but Undereducated synthesizes an array of research and shows how these insights can contribute to a better understanding of human learning, especially as this relates to adolescence. By mis-understanding teenagers’ instinctive need to do things for themselves, society is in danger of creating a system of schooling that so goes against the natural grain of the adolescent brain that formal education ends up unintentionally trivialising the very young people it claims to be supporting. By failing to keep up with appropriate research in the biological and social sciences, current educational systems continue to treat adolescence as a problem rather than an opportunity. This book is about the need for transformational change in education.
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Training The Mind: Transfer Across Tasks Requiring Interference Resolution : Developing Intelligence
Consistent with this prediction, only the group trained on the easily-confusable memory tasks improved on the untrained tasks. In addition, the observed improvement was roughly equal on all three of the untrained tasks, indicating impressive generalization of the trained ability. A critical additional analysis showed that the improvement showed by each individual on the trained tasks predicted each individual's benefits on the untrained tasks. This analysis is an important compliment to the group level analyses which are more typically done in experimental psychology, because it shows a one-to-one correspondence between training and transfer of that training.
Essential sites for students « Mind Hacks
As the new academic year is in full flow, students might find themselves with a raft of information and little to paddle with. Mind Hacks has collected a list of favourite internet resources for mind and brain sciences students to help with getting yourselves ashore. News, views and scientific developments The mind and brain sciences are among the fastest moving areas in terms of research and discovery. Getting to grips with the area can sometimes seem daunting, partly because of the academic language, or just due to the sheer volume of information that needs navigating.Brainwaves and Consciousness - Brainwaves (1) Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta
Although logical thinking is often attributed to the left hemisphere and intuitive and creative activities are seen to be located in the right hemisphere, the Mind Mirror EEG in most people is quite symmetrical. Both hemispheres are very well connected, and even though there are brain activities the can clearly be located in one hemisphere (e.g. speech), most of the time both hemispheres are active . The mind mirror display shows the brain waves according to their frequencies from top (38 Hz) to bottom (0,5 Hz). The strenghth of the signal (amplitude) is diplayed in how far from the middle the curve reaches outward. Gamma brainwaves (100 - 38 Hz) were detected later than the other brainwaves, less is known about them so far.
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