Educating the Human Brain

By: Michael I. Posner, Mary Klevjord Rothbart

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Hardcover | 13 February 2007

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Educating the Human Brain is the product of a quarter century of research. This book provides an empirical account of the early development of attention and self regulation in infants and young children. It examines the brain areas involved in regulatory networks, their connectivity, and how their development is influenced by genes and experience. Relying on the latest techniques in cognitive and temperament measurement, neuroimaging, and molecular genetics, the book integrates research on neural networks common to all of us with studies of individual differences.

In this book, the authors explain where, when, and how the brain performs functions that are necessary for learning. Such functions include attending to information; controlling attention through effort; regulating the interplay of emotion with cognition; and coding, organizing, and retrieving information. The authors suggest how these aspects of brain development can support school readiness, literacy, numeracy, and expertise. The audience for this book includes neuroscientists as well as developmental and educational psychologists who have interest in the latest brain research. The many helpful visuals — including brain diagrams, pictures and photographs of experimental set-ups, and graphs and tables displaying key data — also give this book appeal for graduate students.

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In their new book, Educating the Human Brain, Michael Posner and Mary Rothbart boldly bring the newest branch of developmental psychology - developmental cognitive neuroscience-into this tradition. The authors' goal is straightforward - to take our burgeoning knowledge of the development of the human brain and apply that information to the way we educate. It is an ambitious undertaking, and the authors have done an admirable job. Their volume is at once true to the complexity of the science of brain development and to the techniques used to measure brain activity (functional neuroimaging, electroencephalography and evoked response potentials), and at the same time highly approachable for the novice to neuroscience. It is a worthwhile read, both for educators looking for guidance on how new neuroscientific research can inform their practice and for developmental psychologists hoping to bend their research programs toward practical applications in the classroom.

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Non-Fiction Family & Health Parenting: Advice & Issues Pregnancy, Birth & Baby Care Psychology Child & Developmental Psychology Medicine Clinical & Internal Medicine Neurology & Clinical Neurophysiology Child Care & Upbringing

Education, psychology, and the brain	p. 7
Relating brain and mind	p. 25
Learning to look	p. 55
A mind of one's own	p. 79
Genes and environment	p. 99
Temperament and learning	p. 121
Literacy	p. 147
Numeracy	p. 173
Expertise	p. 189
Preparing for school	p. 209
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