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Creating Well-Rounded Business People Using Both Brain Hemispheres

This 5 page paper argues that while most business is anchored in the logical left side of the brain, there is also room for creati...

Recovering from Brain Damage

The writer argues that brain injury is more common than is generally believed, and examines the incidence of such injury, the type...

Textbook Chapter and Media Article Compared

protecting brain cells from stroke and trauma damage. A recent study also showed that cannabinoids block the formation of new memo...

Human Brain's Recognition of Objects

The process is a mathematical comparison which equates to a comparison of graphs with label different features (Garey and. Johnson...

Brain Development Research and Sonic Hedgehog Functioning

out a web of wirelike fibers known as axons (which transmit signals) and dendrites (which receive them). The objective is to form ...

Anxiety Disorders and Anxiolytic Drugs

addiction and withdrawal symptoms, most of the current data suggests otherwise. The metabolic half-life of these drugs tend to cyc...

Brain Cancer and Cell Phone Usage Connection

of the Long Island women blame the electrical power lines strung high above their homes, there has been no proof of a link between...

Classroom Technology and Research into Brain Function

prunes connections based on experience." The cycle is "most pronounced between the ages of 2 and 11, as different development are...

Introduction to Psychobiology

the brain waves. Electrodes are places on the scalp and a machine picks up the shape and types of waves, e.g., alpha waves or beta...

Advancements Since Gage: How the Brain Supports Cognitive Function

conception that thoughts and reason came from the brain, while emotions came from the heart, or in some cultures, "the gut". Moder...

The Brain's Role in Cognitive Functioning

is comprised of pre-motor and motor areas (Johnson, 2009). The motor area has nerve cells that help ones movements and the pre-mot...

Traumatic Brain Injury - Job Coaching

negative emotions and maximize the positive emotions when faced with a task that is challenging. One of the issues with persons w...

Brain-Based Education

book, Human Brain, Human Learning (Jensen, 2008). Brain-based education emphasizes how the brain learns naturally. This informati...

Using the Internet to Build a Competitive Brain Trust

and commitment to the venture, help to guide the venture in the right direction. This includes not only team members, but, critica...

Ssubstance Abuse

Drug addiction and substance abuse are very complex conditions. The more prolonged they are, the more damage they do to the brain’...

The Need For Consistent And Predictable Care

birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...

How Does ADHD Affect Learning

impossible for this individual to learn or achieve in school. This is not because they are not intelligent enough to do so, it is ...

Brain Development

to each other (BrainWonders, 2001). The connections are best described as electrical impulses that move down the nerve cell and th...

Neurological Issues And Learning Disabilities

relationship of the brain to learning has been studied a great deal among twins (Simmons, 2006). Some studies have shown that iden...

The Amazing Brain and The Secret Life of the Brain Annotations

infants as they later develop. The quiet environment of the womb is critical for the proper development of the brain during the f...

Learning and the Human Brain

operate a bit differently from each other, with the two main differences being logic resides on the left and creativity is control...

Learning and the Significance of Prior Experiences and Knowledge

"the ideas of a new schema are connected not only to each other but to previously established schemata as well" (Daniel, 1999). Th...

Teaching English As A Foreign Language Using Neurolinguistic Programming

in teaching (Baker, 2005). Using NLP "will enable us to uncover the basis of our perceptions and so teach us how we think and lear...

Development of an Original Observational Instrument for Classroom Use

of facts, they should help the students understand the subject, and in doing they aid the students cognitive processes, not only t...

Summary of “Listening in the Native and Second/Foreign Language: Toward an Integration of Research”

human understanding, theorists such as Aristotle and Saint Augustine also considered the same subject as did Hobbes and the Port R...

Child Language Acquisition: Babbling

one year old (Alam, 1998). Other authors write that babbling sometimes goes on at the same time as speech, or that it can recur af...

Critical Period Hypothesis - Second Language Acquisition

knowledge and skill in a different way? The critical period hypothesis regarding acquiring a second language is not new. This hyp...

Foreign Language, Benefits of Learning

This paper pertains to the benefits of learning a foreign language, the future of this field and gap-testing strategies. Three pag...

The Relationship Between Orthography And Pronunciation In L1 And L2 Phonology

their newly acquired L2 phonological system (Thompson et al, 2007). The multiplicity of languages spoken across the globe ...

The Process and Barriers in Communication

unconscious models, either directly or indirectly. He way that this has taken place has changed over the years, undergoing evolut...