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Educational neuroscience is a thriving field of research, and there are many excellent and doubtless well-meaning researchers doing rigorous and valuable work in the area. Unfortunately, there are also businesses that want to exploit teachers’ lack of experience and middle-class parental anxieties about school attainment.
Matt Wall • How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education
NeuroLeadership Institute
David Rock, Linda J. Page • Coaching With the Brain in Mind
The brain’s breathtaking complexity exists in a highly sensitive, fragile environment, which is why a head injury or sharp jolt can damage this “wiring” and disrupt the delicate synaptic connections.
Brant Cortright • The Neurogenesis Diet and Lifestyle: Upgrade Your Brain, Upgrade Your Life
Rethinking the Gut's Neurons: Newly Discovered Neurons Upend Established Theory - Neuroscience News
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Psychology
Nic Silver • 2 cards
One of the most useful findings in recent neuroscience could be summed up as: The decision-making network in our brain doesn’t prioritize.
Daniel Levitin • The Organized Mind
Their finding is part of wider realization in the neuroscience community, that our brain does not simply react to what comes in through our senses. Instead, we have a predictive brain, that permanently predicts what comes next. The expected sensory input is then suppressed. We see the world from the inside out, rather than from the outside in.
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Neuroscience News • Brain Predicts Actions: Rethinking Perception in Social Interactions - Neuroscience News
Brain
Sarah Holland • 3 cards
Applied neuroscience explores the applications of neuroscience in real-world settings. Where most of the work in other neuroscientific branches is done in an academic setting, applied neuroscience is used by practitioners — professionals who work in clinics, hospitals, labs, schools, and companies — as a way to support their core discipline.