Challenging the “teenage” brain
University of Nebraska education psychologist David Moshman challenges some of the mystique and myths around the notion of a “teenage” brain in his Huffington Post article.
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Tragic death
With great sadness we report the news of the death of Boyung Lee’s husband Landon Archer Summers on Sunday morning, May 15, as the result of complications from diabetes. REA:APPRRE members extend our deepest sympathy to Boyung and her family upon this great loss. Boyung is Associate Professor of Educational Ministries at Pacific School of
Do you know your Neuromyths?
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Directorate for Education provides a key platform for neuroscience and education. One of their services includes a list of Neuromyths often association with “brain-based” education.
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Mary Gordon to speak at TEDXGoldenGateED June 11
Roots of Empathy founder and REA Conference speaker Mary Gordon will present June 11 in San Francisco at the TEDxGoldenGateED. The conference is organized around the theme Compassion and Education and includes a diverse field of speakers about what science says about compassion and empathy, and how compassion improves learning. TEDx is a program of
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Is Belief in a Vengeful God More Likely to Promote Moral Behavior Than Belief in a Loving God Is?
Science and Religion Today asks Is Belief in a Vengeful God More Likely to Promote Moral Behavior Than Belief in a Loving God Is? People’s moral behavior is affected by all sorts of things— and religious beliefs may make the difference.
Does the Mind Have a Future?
Baroness Susan Greenfield, Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, provides an intriguing webcast addressing the future of the mind. Biotechnology is blurring the distinction between one generation and another, nanotechnology is blurring the distinction of the body with the outside world, whilst Information Technology is perhaps causing the most immediate and diverse
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Kandel addresses educators concerning Memory and Academic Learning
Featured speaker Eric R. Kandel, a Nobel Laureate and vice-chairman of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives (DABI), explicated the connection: “Learning is how we acquire information, and memory is how we store that information. Education is about enhancing learning, and neuroscience is about trying to understand how learning and memory occur. Memory is the
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Childhood Music Lessons May Provide Lifelong Boost in Brain Functioning
A report from ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2011) — Those childhood music lessons could pay off decades later — even for those who no longer play an instrument — by keeping the mind sharper as people age, according to a preliminary study published by the American Psychological Association.
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Fingerprints of God review
Those interested in our annual meeting plenary speaker Barbara Bradley Hagerty, may want to read the following online review of her work Fingerprints of God by Dr. Taede A. Smedes, a philosopher of religion and a research fellow at the Faculty of Religious Studies of the Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and specialized in the
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The Ethics of Neuroenhancement
Two resources that discuss contemporary issues around cognitive neuroenchancement (the use of drugs to enhance rather than heal human behavior). Martha Farah, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences, with the University of Pennsylvania Center for Neuroscience and Society, offers a website briefing that reviews several issues in either enhancing memory or reducing negative experiences.
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