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Subject(s)

• Cognitive neuroscience [Browse]
• Learning, Psychology of. [Browse]
• Learning—Physiological aspects [Browse]
• Brain [Browse]

Related name

• Centre for Educational Research and Innovation [Browse]
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [Browse]

Summary note

This book provides new insights about learning by synthesizing existing and emerging findings from cognitive and brain science and exploring how this new information might impact teaching, parenting, and educational policy making. It shows what the latest brain imaging techniques and other advances in the neurosciences actually reveal about how the brain develops and operates at different stages in life from birth to old age and how the brain is involved in acquiring skills such as reading and counting. It also presents scientific insights into what happens when the brain malfunctions in conditions such as dyslexia or Alzheimer's disease.--Publisher's description.

Notes

• At head of title: Centre for Educational Research and Innovation.
• Published in French under the title: Comprendre le cerveau : naissance d'une science de l'apprentissage.
• "Follows from the OECD report Understanding the brain : towards a new learning science issued in 2002."--Foreword.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• pt. 1. The learning brain. Introduction
• How the brain learns throughout life
• The impact of environment on the learning brain
• Literacy and the brain
• Numeracy and the brain
• Dispelling "neuromyths"
• The ethics and organisation of educational neuroscience
• Conclusions and future prospects
• pt. 2. Collaborative articles. The brain, development and learning in early childhood
• The brain and learning in adolescence
• Brain, cognition and learning in adulthood.

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Other format(s)

Available both in print and online.

Other title(s)

Understanding the brain : towards a new learning science.

ISBN

• 9789264029125
• 9264029125

LCCN

2007459714

OCLC

155138492

RCP

N - S

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