Posts tagged brain
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Brains In The Cloud: The New Memory
If I think back to my primary school education, learning things by rote was a big thing: From multiplication tables to learning poems by heart, memorizing stuff seemed to be the name of the game. In high school it was all about irregular verbs and periodic tables. Sponging it up. Drilling it. And spilling it….
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What A Damaged Brain Can Tell Us About A Culture of Isolated Approaches
It has become common sense that we have two brains. Or to be more precise: two specialized parts of the brain. This understanding has become known as “brain lateralization” or “hemispheric brain function” All of this has become heavily popularized but rarely do we see actual applications of this knowledge. Also, the generalizations are so…
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“Rescue the Princess”: The Psychology and Neuroscience of Social Media in the Generation Gap of Digital Natives & Immigrants
Working with students and teachers from all over the world in different timezones, I have recently stumbled upon the fact, that our sleeping patterns as “digital natives” might severely differ from those of earlier generations; Not only state, but also night&day boundaries are becoming more and more fluid as the “global village” strengthens its ties….
