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• Our Thrifty Brains.

  
  Deric Bownds' MindBlog — Authority: 454
  Andy Clark has done a piece that is really worth reading. in the Stone, a New York Times forum for contemporary philosophers. (And, check out the video below): Might the miserly use of neural resources be one of the essential keys to understanding how brains make sense of the world? Some recent work in ...
  3 days ago

• Poverty in American Schools: What Educators Can Do

  
  The Science of Learning Blog — Authority: 399
  Children from poverty often struggle in school.  Our free on-demand webinar by Eric Jensen, author of Teaching With Poverty in Mind, gives tips for helping all students succeed.
  2 weeks ago

• Up Close With Language Super Learners

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 623
  More in the podcast this week with Michael Erard about his new book, Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners . This is the second half of my conversation with Erard. Part One is here . Erard talks about why hyperpolyglots are driven to learn so many languages. He also ...
  2 weeks ago

• Walk This Way: Scientists and MBL Physiology Course Students Describe How a Motor Protein “Steps Out”

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 111
  Just like people, some proteins have characteristic ways of “walking,” which (also like human gaits) are not so easy to describe. But now scientists have discovered the unique “drunken sailor” gait of dynein, a protein that is critical for the function of every cell in the body and whose malfunction has been ...
  2 weeks ago

• Our bias against creativity

  
  Deric Bownds' MindBlog — Authority: 454
  In principle we are all for creativity, but, when faced with the prospect of actually altering our behavior or opinions we falter. Mueller et al suggest that this is a covert, largely unconscious process regulated by how uncertain we feel. Their results show that regardless of the degree to which people are open ...
  3 weeks ago

• Receptor for Tasting Fat Identified in Humans

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 111
  Why do we like fatty foods so much? We can blame our taste buds. Our tongues apparently recognize and have an affinity for fat, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. They have found that variations in a gene can make people more or less sensitive to the taste of [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Your Brain—It’s SMART to Use It Or Lose It!

  
  SMART Living 365 — Authority: 98
  Happy SMART Day Everyone! Is the human brain considered plastic?  Yes, but unfortunately many people don’t know it.  And, even though it’s been scientifically proven that the brain can structurally and functionally reorganize itself, many of us still live our … Continue reading →
  3 weeks ago

• A Link Between Good Grades and Exercise?

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 593
  The more physical activity a child engages in, the better their performance at school. At least, that’s the suggestion from a new review of previously published research looking at the relationship between academic performance and exercise in children. All of the 14 studies the researchers identified for review ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Road to Hyperpolyglottery w/ Michael Erard

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 623
  Language writer Michael Erard ’s new book is about people who appear to have a special gift. You, perhaps, and I (and Erard for that matter) struggle to learn one or two languages to a basic conversational level. Hyperpolyglots aren’t like that. They take on Arabic after breakfast and will have mastered it by ...
  3 weeks ago

• Structural changes in adult brains caused by acquiring knowledge

  
  Deric Bownds' MindBlog — Authority: 454
  A number of reports have appeared over the past 20 years suggesting that the hippocampus region of the brain involved in place memory is larger than normal in London Taxi drivers (who must pass a memory test of London streets to become licensed taxi drivers). Woollett and Maguire have now examined this more carefully. ...
  4 weeks ago

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