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Title The educated brain : essays in neuroeducation / Antonio M. Battro, Kurt W. Fischer & Pierre J. Léna, editors.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 256 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Edited from papers presented at the workshop Mind, Brain and Education, held at the Vatican, November 7-8, 2003.--Preface.
Contents Towards a new pedagogical and didactic approach / Rita Levi-Montalcini -- 1 Introduction: mind, brain, and education in theory and practice / Antonio M. Battro, Kurt W. Fischer, and Pierre J. Léna -- 2 Historical considerations on brain and self / Fernando Vidal -- 3 Building bridges in neuroeducation / John T. Breur -- 4 Mind, brain and consciousness / Jürgen Mittelstrass -- 5 Understanding mind, brain, and education as a complex, dynamic developing system: measurement, modeling, and research / Paul Van Geert and Henderien Steenbeek -- 6 Epigenesis and brain plasticity in education / Wolf Singer -- 7 Chronoeducation: how the biological clock influences the learning process / Daniel P. Cardinali -- 8 Dynamic cycles of cognitive and brain development: measuring growth in mind, brain, and education / Kurt W. Fischer -- 9 Brain mechanisms and learning of high level skills / Michel I. Posner, Mary K. Rothbart, and M. Rosario Rueda -- 10 Developing the brain: a functional imaging approach to learning and educational sciences / Hideaki Koizumi -- 11 A triptych of the reading brain: evolution, development, pathology, and its intervention / Maryanne Wolf -- 12 Reading and the brain: a cross-language approach / Usha Goswami -- 13 Cortical images of early language and phonetic development using near infrared spectroscopy / Laura-Ann Petitto -- 14 Cerebral constraints in reading and arithmetic: education as a "neuronal recycling" process / Stanislas Dehaene.
Summary A broad overview of the major topics in the new discipline of neuroeducation.
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Subject Educational psychology.
Educational psychology.
Learning -- Physiological aspects.
Learning -- Physiological aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Battro, Antonio M.
Fischer, Kurt W.
Léna, Pierre, 1937-
Other Form: Print version: Educated brain. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521876735 0521876737 (DLC) 2008297886 (OCoLC)171110401
ISBN 9780511489907 (electronic book)
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9780511386756 (electronic book)
0521876737 (Cloth)
9780521876735 (hardback)
Standard No. XH05374X