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The Reading Brain - Articles
Reading and the Brain
by
apraxiamom
Posted
Sun 20 Dec 2009 6:42am
An interesting article was sent to me by someone within the education system.I wanted to share this with you because I know that we all encourage our children to read and we teach reading in various forms during the day.
Although some children receive additional reading instruction through interventions, it makes it seem like our whole day is about
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Internet Surfing Better Than Reading for Brain Stimulation
by
Anthony Cirillo
Posted
Thu 22 Jan 2009 6:45pm
had more stimulation of decision-making and complex reasoning areas of the brain than peers who were new to web surfing. Reading didn’t stimulate the same number of brain areas... screen that was formatted to look like a book.
While reading stimulated the same areas of the brain in both groups, those who regularly searched the Internet showed twice
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Mind Reading, Brain Fingerprinting and the Law
by
Kathy J.
Posted
Thu 21 Jan 2010 6:38am
), are based on the assumption that lying and truth-telling are associated with distinctive activity in different areas of the brain. These and other potential forms of ‘mind reading...
January 21, 2010
What if a jury could decide a man’s guilt through mind reading? What if reading a defendant’s memory could betray
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Encephalon #61: Brain & Mind Reading for the Holidays
by
Alvaro F.
Posted
Mon 22 Dec 2008 12:00am
Welcome to the 61st edition of , the blog carnival that offers some of the best neuroscience and psychology blog posts every other week.
We do have an excellent set of articles today. covering much ground. Enjoy the reading:
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Neuroscience and Society
Neuroanthropology,
by Greg Downey
Average IQ test scores had risen about 3
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Dysfluent reading in disorganized brains
by
JohnL
Posted
Tue 04 Dec 2007 12:00am
relationship between certain brain structures and dysfluent reading. People with PNH have difficulty reading fluently and their genetic disorder causes a known aberration in neural structure. Their fluency in reading is correlated with the degree of disorganization in their brains.
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Reading, Serendipity, and the Brain
by
Sheryle B.
Posted
Tue 21 Oct 2008 12:13am
+ interacting with another person + zooming in and out of those connections upstairs to find and talk about all those books. I was cross training, for sure.
technorati: reading, brain... started to chat politely and somehow quickly got into books we had read. We zoomed into "have you read. . .?" and covered acres of territory, on the ground and in the sky. We both
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I read some research about chemo brain, but I can't remember what it was
by
Katherine B.
Posted
Tue 03 Feb 2009 1:00am
"chemo fog" (or "chemo brain" as it's called in my house) and the reaction may be very mixed. Some doctors even wonder if it exists blaming it instead on depression, anemia, stress or menopause.
Despite the fact the chemo has been around for decades there is little research on chemo brain. Dr. Walker, whose mother had breast cancer, believes that "chemo fog
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Still another new book on the brain: My to-read list just grew
by
Stephanie Allen
Posted
Wed 14 Apr 2010 12:00am
How can one keep up on all the brain books that are published? I read whenever I get a chance, and do the best I can. I'm in luck because I have another plane trip in the next few days, so will have some uninterrupted reading time to shrink my to-read list.
Here's another brain book I just learned about today. The news release from
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Reading Shakespeare Sparks Peak in Brain Activity
by
Sheryle B.
Posted
Tue 21 Oct 2008 12:13am
collaborated to discover that when participants in their study read Shakespeare, their brains felt a little twinkle dust and magically peaked, indicating heavy-duty thinking. What... or phrase. According to the researchers, the brain goes boom and we also begin to understand multiple meanings of a line or phrase, giving dramatic umph to the words. We also feel
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