How to Explain a Brain (eBook)

An Educator's Handbook of Brain Terms and Cognitive Processes

Robert Sylwester (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
200 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-63220-975-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Noted author Robert Sylwester offers educators and general readers his own definitions for terms used in the cognitive neurosciences. This unique look into the marvelous brain uses language and descriptions that are accessible to readers, even those with just a limited understanding of biology. Discover how our brain is organized and develops, and how educators can use this emerging understanding of cognition to enhance student learning and the school environment.This ready-reference guide to essential concepts and terms in cognitive neurosciences includes:-Nearly three hundred encyclopedic entries and cross references created to help educators understand key concepts about our brain's organization, development, and learning capabilities-Eleven newly created anatomic models and illustrations that focus on key brain systems and functions-References and recommended print and Internet resourcesHow to Explain a Brain celebrates the brain in all its wonder and is sure to become a reference book of choice for teachers, instructional leaders, and teacher educators.

Autor

Robert Sylwester is an Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Oregon who focuses on the educational implications of new developments in science and technology. He has written twenty books and curricular programs and 200+ journal articles. He received two Distinguished Achievement Awards from The Education Press Association of America for his syntheses of cognitive science research, published in Educational Leadership. He is now a regular contributor to the Information Age Education Newsletter and lives in Eugene, OR.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Zivilverfahrensrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: adrian raine • antisocial behavior social factors • biological basis • Biological factors • biological roots • Birth Complications • brain damage • brain disorders • brain function • brain functioning • brain imaging • Brain Injury • brain research • brain scans • Brain science • broken brains • cause brain • child's brain • civil liberties • Cognitive Sciences • common denominator • Criminal activity • criminal behavior • criminal justice • criminal mind • current research • death row justic • direct prose • emotional brain • Environmental Factors • Evolutionary Psychology • frontal cortex • genetic basis • Gray matter • heart rates • Home environment • Human Brain • impulse control • indefinite detention • Legal system • limbic system • low levels • nervous system • neuroscience research • normal brain • Population control • prefrontal cortex • psychopathic tendencies • Public Health • raine offers • reduce crime • resting heart • risk factors • social environments • social forces • Social Sciences • thx 1138 • violent behavior • Violent crime • violent criminals • violent offenders • violent tendencies
• ISBN-10: 1-63220-975-6 / 1632209756
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63220-975-7 / 9781632209757