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March 10, 2017 11:15 AM
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This week, we are going to talk about the past unreal conditional. Past unreal conditionals are often used to express wishes about the past. They often show regret, or sad feelings about something that happened in the past.
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March 10, 2017 12:05 AM
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For the most part, research suggests that listening to music can improve your efficiency, creativity and happiness in terms of work-related tasks.
However, there are stipulations to these benefits. For example, studies seem to agree that listening to music with lyrics is distracting for most people. Therefore, it’s often recommended that we avoid listening to music featuring lyrics when working on tasks that require intense focus or the learning of new information.
In contrast, listening to music with lyrics may actually help people working on repetitive or mundane tasks, perhaps because the distracting nature of lyrical music can provide a kind of relief from the monotony of boring work.
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March 9, 2017 12:27 AM
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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that our thoughts are shaped by our native language, and that speakers of different languages therefore think differently. This hypothesis is controversial in part because it appears to deny the possibility of a universal groundwork for human cognition, and in part because some findings taken to support it have not reliably replicated. We argue that considering this hypothesis through the lens of probabilistic inference has the potential to resolve both issues, at least with respect to certain prominent findings in the domain of color cognition. We explore a probabilistic model that is grounded in a presumed universal perceptual color space and in language-specific categories over that space. The model predicts that categories will most clearly affect color memory when perceptual information is uncertain. In line with earlier studies, we show that this model accounts for language-consistent biases in color reconstruction from memory in English speakers, modulated by uncertainty. We also show, to our knowledge for the first time, that such a model accounts for influential existing data on cross-language differences in color discrimination from memory, both within and across categories. We suggest that these ideas may help to clarify the debate over the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
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March 8, 2017 9:45 AM
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Want to know some proven techniques to enhance learner behavior using Neuroeducation? Check how Neuroeducation increases learning behavior.
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February 15, 2017 11:24 PM
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Imagination is often associated with childhood, but that doesn’t mean the process is simple. Conjuring images that one has never seen before is more complex than it seems, requiring the brain to reconfigure images it can readily identify in new ways.
In one hypothesis of the imagination network, the prefrontal cortex plays a crucial function as coordinator, signaling different networks of neurons representing images that wouldn’t normally be associated together, to fire at the same time. Called “mental synthesis,” some researchers now believe the infrastructure for life-long imaginative pursuits may be laid during childhood.
This TED-Ed video explains in more detail what scientists think is going on in the brain when our imaginations are at work.
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February 15, 2017 10:54 AM
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January 30, 2017 12:51 AM
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During the early years of a human’s life, trillions of brain-cell connections, called synapses, are formed, thanks to jolts of stimulation. As Donald Hebb’s theory rhymes, “neurons that fire together, wire together”. Brain stimulation can come from just about anything, including chatter, outdoor play and, probably, to many parents’ dismay, screens.
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January 17, 2017 5:53 AM
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Despite well-publicized efforts to promote equality, Wikipedia articles are deeply biased against women, say computer scientists who have analysed six different language versions of the online encyclopedia.
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January 15, 2017 1:41 PM
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Your devotion to unchanging grammar and spelling can be a very good and holy thing — just not in English
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January 2, 2017 11:35 AM
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Neuroscience News has recent neuroscience research articles, brain research news, neurology studies and neuroscience resources for neuroscientists, students, and science fans and is always free to join. Our neuroscience social network has science groups, discussion forums, free books, resources, science videos and more.
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December 29, 2016 1:03 AM
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E-learning is a way to let learners learn naturally through their instinctive processes.
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At a glance, you can recognize a friend's face whether they are happy or sad or even if you haven't seen them in a decade. How does the brain do this—recognize familiar faces with efficiency and ease despite extensive variatio
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December 21, 2016 11:25 AM
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from Conditionals
March 10, 2017 11:14 AM
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In everyday conversation, English speakers often talk about things that are not true. Or, they talk about things that only happen if something else happens. Learn how to correctly use these conditional forms in English.
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March 9, 2017 12:35 AM
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Speech therapy apps for iPad developed with certified speech language pathologists (SLPs) and teachers. Teach Speech Apps creates iPad apps to help teach prepositions, pronouns, and rhyming.
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March 4, 2017 8:47 AM
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BrainConnection.com, powered by BrainHQ, is dedicated to providing accessible, high-quality information about how the brain works and how people learn. Many discoveries are being made in areas that relate to the human brain, including language, memory, behavior, and aging, as well as illness and injury. Our brain experts believe that access to this information can provide practical tools for teaching and learning as well as valuable insights into almost every aspect of our daily lives.
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February 15, 2017 10:57 AM
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February 2, 2017 1:12 PM
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__________________________________________________________________________________ My research has shown that intermediate second language (L2) learners can understand each sentence of a text without being able to build a mental representation of the overall text. This failur e is linked to the development of L2 processing abilities. My latest study (2008) shows that a factor in poor L2 processing of written text is, counter -intuitively, an unreliable L2 phonological inventory. This suggests strongly that teaching phonology w ill help L2 learners read better.
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January 17, 2017 5:52 AM
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January 12, 2017 10:44 AM
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December 29, 2016 1:06 AM
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Neuroscience News has recent neuroscience research articles, brain research news, neurology studies and neuroscience resources for neuroscientists, students, and science fans and is always free to join. Our neuroscience social network has science groups, discussion forums, free books, resources, science videos and more.
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