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Monthly Archives: January 2017
To Ban or Not to Ban: A Usefully Provocative Answer
For every enthusiastic voice championing the use of laptops in classrooms, we hear equally skeptical…
Book Review: the Promise and Perils of fMRI
Russell Poldrack reviews Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans: How fMRI Reveals What Really Goes on…
Kitchen Knives and Face Blindness: An fMRI story
Nancy Kanwisher asks: is the brain like a kitchen knife, or is it like a…
What do teachers need to know about neurons?
At EdSurge News, Sydney Johnson ponders neurotransmitters, social development, and the marvelous Mary Helen Immordino-Yang.
Parenting Matters, and Earlier than You Think
Studies of neglect and maltreatment of young children have revealed a lot about early brain…
“Screen Time”: Content and Context Matter
This open letter–signed by many psychologists and neuroscientists well-known to LaTB audiences–argues that current panic about…
Laptops in the Classroom: The Debate Continues…
In at least this one college classroom, non-academic laptop use is inversely related to performance…
17 Ways to Fold Sheep
Here’s a mental puzzle to start off your day: Imagine you’ve got 17 sheep and…
A Skeptic Meditates
Scott Barry Kaufman meditates — rebelliously — for eight weeks, and learns a lot about himself,…
Daily Routines in Early Childhood: Help or Hindrance?
“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was…