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Les bébés n'apprécient pas les menteurs !#xtor#xtor. Les nourrissons n’aiment pas qu’on les mène en bateau. Une étude canadienne révèle que les bébés, pourtant bien enclins à mimer les gestes de leurs interlocuteurs, sont beaucoup plus hésitants à imiter celui qui vient de leur mentir. Idées reçues et vérités sur les bébés, dans notre dossier Chez l'Homme comme chez d'autres espèces animales, l'apprentissage lors de la petite enfance passe beaucoup par l'imitation et la reproduction des gestes observés chez les congénères. C'est ainsi que les bébés acquièrent petit à petit la dextérité pour se les approprier. La parole en est une parfaite illustration, du babillage jusqu'à l'acquisition complète du langage. Pourtant, il ne faudrait pas réduire cette maniemanie à une imitation systématique de tous les comportements observés. Les bébés savent faire le tri entre les personnes fiables qu'il est possible d'imiter et les menteurs en qui on ne peut avoir confiance.

Ils s'attendaient donc tous à trouver une belle surprise. Hearing Bilingual - How Babies Tell Languages Apart. Yet while many parents recognize the utility of a second language, families bringing up children in non-English-speaking households, or trying to juggle two languages at home, are often desperate for information. And while the study of bilingual development has refuted those early fears about confusion and delay, there aren’t many research-based guidelines about the very early years and the best strategies for producing a happily bilingual child.

But there is more and more research to draw on, reaching back to infancy and even to the womb. As the relatively new science of bilingualism pushes back to the origins of speech and language, scientists are teasing out the earliest differences between brains exposed to one language and brains exposed to two. Recently, researchers at the University of Washington used measures of electrical brain responses to compare so-called monolingual infants, from homes in which one language was spoken, to bilingual infants exposed to two languages. Dr. Dr. Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits. Is there a genius in all of us? 13 January 2011Last updated at 01:36 Those who think geniuses are born and not made should think again, says author David Shenk. Where do athletic and artistic abilities come from? With phrases like "gifted musician", "natural athlete" and "innate intelligence", we have long assumed that talent is a genetic thing some of us have and others don't.

But new science suggests the source of abilities is much more interesting and improvisational. A century ago, geneticists saw genes as robot actors, always uttering the same lines in exactly the same way, and much of the public is still stuck with this old idea. They now know that genes interact with their surroundings, getting turned on and off all the time. Malleable "There are no genetic factors that can be studied independently of the environment," says Michael Meaney, a professor at McGill University in Canada.

Continue reading the main story “Start Quote It would be folly to suggest that anyone can literally do or become anything. Doomed. Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! Tous des génies ? Recommander cette page à un(e) ami(e) Génial ! Le mot a envahi notre vocabulaire pour désigner des choses, des faits ou des personnes qui nous étonnent par leur perfection. Un être génial est celui qui réussit mieux que quiconque, et souvent par d'autres voies. Peut-on apprendre à devenir génial ? Alors voilà : certains ont la chance de naître géniaux, et d'autres pas. Eh bien, il semble que cela ne soit pas vrai. Inné contre acquis : c'est bien de ce débat dont il est question.

Un exemple éloquent : le cerveau des chauffeurs de taxi londoniens présente les mêmes modifications de l'hippocampe postérieur que celui des violonistes, des personnes lisant le braille et de celles qui pratiquent la méditation. Les gènes ne sont pas pour autant à jeter. Voilà qui devrait donner à penser aux responsables de l'institution scolaire. Albert Einstein a dit quelque chose de très révélateur sur la façon dont on évalue l’intelligence : « .”

" Is there a genius in all of us? What's the secret to improving your ability to learn. What should you do after learning something that you need to remember? - Barking up the wrong tree. Unconscious learning uses old parts of the brain. Public release date: 6-Apr-2010 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Katarina Sternuddkatarina.sternudd@ki.se 46-852-483-895Karolinska Institutet A new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet provides evidence that basic human learning systems use areas of the brain that also exist in the most primitive vertebrates, such as certain fish, reptiles and amphibians. The study involved an investigation into the limbic striatum, one of the evolutionarily oldest parts of the brain, and the ability to learn movements, consciously and unconsciously, through repetition. "Our results strongly substantiate the theories that say that the implicit, by which I mean non-conscious, learning systems of the brain are simpler and evolutionarily older," says Associate Professor Fredrik Ullén from Karolinska Institutet and the Stockholm Brain Institute.

Download press images: For further information, contact: [ Print | E-mail AAAS and EurekAlert! Questions_meta_csriveraine.pdf. Questions_meta_cep.pdf. Je_me_questionne2.pdf. The Science of Learning: Best Approaches for Your Brain. Do you wonder why people don’t understand the idea you’re trying to get across in a meeting? Are you mentoring another developer and struggling to understand why the still don’t get it? Do you run training courses and wonder why the attendees only learn 10% of the material? We are all teachers whether as informal mentors, coaches, trainers or parents.

Yet only professional educators receive training in this area. Nearly two years ago I started reading neuroscience (Norman Doidge’s “The Brain that Changes Itself”), for fun. Along the way I acquired an interest in neuroscience and wondered how its lessons could be applied to Agile Software Development and beyond. Only twenty years ago most people in the world of neuroscience believed that the connections between the neurons in your brain were fixed by the time you were a teenager (or even younger)[1]. The hippocampus is the gatekeeper for long term memory, in this case declarative memory (i.e. stories and experiences).

Abstract Ideas.