Category: Imagination
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Reality. Imagination. Opposite directions...
As real as that daydream may seem, its path through your brain runs opposite reality. Aiming to discern discrete neural circuits, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have tracked electrical activity in the brains of people who alternately imagined scenes or watched videos. During imagination, the researchers found an increase in the flow of information…
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Handwriting. Creativity. Children. The lost wisdom...
Does handwriting matter? Not very much, according to many educators. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in most states, call for teaching legible writing, but only in kindergarten and first grade. After that, the emphasis quickly shifts to proficiency on the keyboard. But psychologists and neuroscientists say it is far too soon to…
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Autism as a privilege. Not a disease!
Could drama workshops help children with autism-spectrum disorders? Results from a pilot study called Imagining Autism suggests this might be the case. The research involved 22 children aged between 7 and 12 and consisted of one 45-minute session every week for 10 weeks. During this time, groups of four children entered an enclosed themed environment,…
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Imagination. From the whole brain...
Imagination. Seems that the whole brain is utilized for it to work, not just a specific part of it. (1, 2) More and more we are closing into the idea of Unity, starting from our own mind...
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