Topics from a Educational Neuroscience Viewpoint
Attention & Education
Short-Term Memory
Long-Term Memory
Emotions & Education
Vision & Education
Exercise & Education
What is Educational Neuroscience Teaching?
The educational neuroscience teaching practices listed below are supported by neuroscience research.
Using Meaning and Chunking, Effective Use of Novelty, Discipline & Education, Prediction, Pulsed Learning, Press and Release , Recall of Prior Knowledge, Spaced vs. Massed Learning, Effects of Stress in the Classroom, The Learning Curve, Creating a Safe Learning Environment, Primacy-Recency Effect, The Forgetting Curve
The Experts
Three Compelling Case Studies
Phineas Gage
He is often described to as one of the most famous patients in neuroscience.
H.M.
Too little memory. A man born with normal memory who later in life lost his ability to remember new things. He could meet you twice in two hours, with no recall of the first meeting.
Kim Peeks
Too much memory. A mega savant, he could read a page of a book in ten seconds, remembered everything he had read, can recall 12,000 books, did formidable calculations in his head, and remembered music he had heard decades ago. He is the only savant know who could read two pages of a book simultaneously – one with each eye, regardless of whether it was upside down or sideways on.
