This article from Psychology Today, Plastic Is Fantastic . . . for Your Brain explores the topic of neuroplasticity, a topic studied in the BLOA.
Neuroplasticity is defined as:
Triple A Learning IB Blogs
August 5, 2011
Neuroplasticity and the BLOA
June 4, 2010
brains & students
A Toronto newspaper supported a journalist to write a year long series on the insights neuroscience offers to education. Some of this you have likely heard before, but all of it is relevant to how we act as educators. There are a few articles specifically aimed at how the teenage and undergraduate brain learns. Check it out. And a follow-up article.
March 25, 2010
Who am I and what is this? More on neurophilosophy
Neurophilosophy and the cognitive sciences suggest that the way things are and the way we claim to know them as they are two phenomena that require our careful, critical attention and reflection. Michale Eysenck and Mark Keane argue in Cognitive Psychology (Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press, 1995, p. 52): ‘There is compelling evidence that different kinds of information are involved in visual object recognition. It is reasonable to distinguish amond visual knowledge, semantic (associative and functional) knowledge, and object naming, and studies on brain-damaged patients indicate the value of these distinctions.” Let’s consider these points from the perspective of two fundamental philosophical questions: “Who am I?” and “What is this?”. But let’s look at these questions precisely as knowledge issues from the perspective of brain-damaged patients as the citation suggests:
To be or to seem to be – the brain is the question!
All knowledge begins in experience. All knowledge begins in experience but is not limited to experience. Some knowledge proceeds from reason alone. The list of possibilities could go on. However, recent contributions from the cognitive sciences and from neurophilosophy seem to indicate that we might do well to take a closer look at how the brain, strictly as a physiological organ, operates in arriving at what we tend to call ‘knowledge’. Consider the following short video:
