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We humans all use a variety of senses to gather information and the more ‘vivid’ and cross sensational that input is, the more likely we will retain the information in the brain longer term. We see, we touch, we smell, we hear and we taste. We tend to organise things and we also experience emotions; happiness, sadness, [...]
A fertilised egg is 0.14 mm in diameter. The brain develops from a layer of skin cells called the ectoderm. At 2 weeks the egg has elongated and is 2 mm long. In the first 8 weeks of pregnancy, tissues, organs and systems of the future child are being induced, differentiated and put into place.The [...]
About the brain; almost 80% of the it is made of water (mainly in the cytoplasm of its cells) with a further 10-12% being fatty lipids and 8% protein. Glial cells, in a roughly 10:1 proportion to neurons, form a firm jelly like support system for neurons. They create the insulating myelin, provide structure to the neuronal [...]
In life, you are either growing or you are dying. Why is it that when people have a birthday with a zero at the end of it, most of them see it as a lot more significant than other birthdays? It is because they measure their life in terms of those numbers. When some people [...]
The brain is an extraordinarily complex organ which currently attracts huge amounts of research spend and we are closer now to knowing how it all fits together, than ever before. Your brain has around 100 billion neurons, and each communicates with thousands of others – as many connections as in the world’s telephone system, the [...]
Recent research in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and neurobiology and behavior, have identified several key factors that have been validated by empirical research. What are the factors that enhance or inhibit involvement in learning? Engagement tends to decline if an activity is motivated by the promise of a reward (as opposed to an intrinsic motivation, such [...]
Recent research has demonstrated that a student’s ability to remember, retrieve, and utilize information is greater when an instructor’s presentations of difficult material are spread out over time rather than concentrated intensively. Testing can be a valuable learning tool. It can focus on evaluation, or it can be used in other ways: to motivate study, consolidate learning, [...]
In the 21st Century, the new disadvantaged will be those who do not have the capacity to learn. They will sink, unable to change and adapt as they are flooded with ever more information and change. But learning is about more than just getting by in a changing world. Our ability to learn is what [...]
In 2009, following a one-year-long study on sea slugs, which have relatively simple nervous systems, a team led by Kelsey Martin at the University of California were the first to witness memories being made in the form of new proteins appearing at the synapses of brain neurons. Earlier studies had already shown that memory formation [...]
This confirms what, to most of us is intuitive; nuturing parents give rise to creative adaptive human beings because the growth of young brains has been nourished to permit development to those ends, and this serves to illustrate the value of ‘practice’ in early years; ‘practice’ in anything but practice in a supportive, positive, affirming, [...]
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