The Learning Brain: Memory and Brain Development in Children PDF

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Free download PRETITLE The Learning Brain: Memory and Brain Development in Children POSTTITLE from mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link Despite all our highly publicized efforts to improve our schools, the United States is still falling behind. We recently ranked 15th in the world in reading, math, and science. Clearly, more needs to be done. In The Learning Brain, Torkel Klingberg urges us to use the insights of neuroscience to improve the education of our children.
The key to improving education lies in understanding how the brain works: that is where learning takes place, after all. The book focuses in particular on "working memory"--our ability to concentrate and to keep relevant information in our head while ignoring distractions (a topic the author covered in The Overflowing Brain). Research shows enormous variation in working memory among children, with some ten-year-olds performing at the level of a fourteen-year old, others at that of a six-year old. More important, children with high working memory have better math and reading skills, while children with poor working memory consistently underperform. Interestingly, teachers tend to perceive children with poor working memory as dreamy or unfocused, not recognizing that these children have a memory problem. But what can we do for these children? For one, we can train working memory. The Learning Brain provides a variety of different techniques and scientific insights that may just teach us how to improve our children's working memory. Klingberg also discusses how stress can impair working memory (skydivers tested just before a jump showed a 30% drop in working memory) and how aerobic exercise can actually modify the brain's nerve cells and improve classroom performance.
Torkel Klingberg is one of the world's leading cognitive neuroscientists, but in this book he wears his erudition lightly, writing with simplicity and good humor as he shows us how to give our children the best chance to learn and grow.Direct download links available for PRETITLE The Learning Brain: Memory and Brain Development in Children POSTTITLE

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• File Size: 760 KB
• Print Length: 200 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (October 5, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B009GYSC1U
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The Learning Brain: Memory and Brain Development in Children PDF

Worthy of Notice: The Learning Brain Ryan Erdwins
4 out of 5 stars 5/16/13
We as a society rely so much on knowledge. How to complete tasks, how to solve problems, even how to construct something one moment and tear it down the next. The ability to acquire this knowledge is simply the ability to learn. But learning a piece of information can vary from person to person and that aptitude for learning can be influenced by a variety of factors. Much of our learning and capacity to learn is crafted in our childhood, during the early years of neurodevelopment. What The Learning Brain discusses is how we can use neuroscience to better understand and improve the education of our youth. Author Torkel Klingberg, MD, PhD uses his extensive knowledge in the field to discuss the variety of ways in which our learning and memory capacity can be affected by stress, diseases, disabilities, as well as environmental factors. Dr. Klingberg is a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Stockholm Brain Institute, which is part of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the leader of a Swedish project dealing with child development. His work on brain training as well child neurodevelopment is at the forefront of its field. He is also a member of the Nobel Assembly. , I would definitely recommend reading The Learning Brain. What I felt this book accomplished best was communicating many of the ways that our developing brain can be affected for better or worse. I felt that it was beneficial in gaining a better understanding of neurological disorders such as ADHD. That being said, there were a few areas where some improvement needs to take place. One improvement s to limit the number of case studies used for a single point.