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The educated brain : essays in neuroeducation

Title
The educated brain : essays in neuroeducation / Antonio M. Battro, Kurt W. Fischer & Pierre J. Léna, editors.
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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  • Battro, Antonio M.
  • Fischer, Kurt W.
  • Léna, Pierre, 1937-
Description
xxiv, 256 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
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  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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.
ISBN
  • 9780521876735 (hbk.)
  • 0521876737 (hbk.)
LCCN
2008297886
OCLC
  • ocn171110401
  • 171110401
  • SCSB-5474523
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Columbia University Libraries