How the Brain Learns by David A. Sousa is an interesting series of books I have been studying. This is some of the thinking he presents. Thoughts?
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04-24-2007, 07:56 PM #1
How the Brain Learns
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08-28-2007, 02:08 AM #2
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Emotion and learning
That is interesting,I will have to let that sink in. Emotion has been underated by western civilisation for some time (including me, especially since reading Kant) ironic since it now seems the most uncivilised people, psychopaths, are the ones largely lacking in emotions.
Another author you may find interesting (or may already know of) is Stanley Greenspan M.D. He argues emotion is essential to to learning language. This is based on studying children and care givers engaged in "emotional signaling".
He claims to be able to treat around half of children with autism from his findings.
He even argues it is essential in a basic way to grasping logic and proper personal development. In the book I've got "the First Idea, How Symbols, Language, and intelligence evolved from our Primate Ancesters to Modern Humans" he has a fairly interesting look at emotional maturity in different cultures.
Unfortunately I don't think he is a very gifted communicator, I've read bits of the book and been more tantalised than anything but it may at least be on the subject you are interested in.
(I am a layman on the subject, I follow this sort of thing so I may be able to use it (for the betterment of humanity of course, being an infj) in my art/painting.
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08-28-2007, 05:52 AM #3
It is remarkable how uncommon, common sense, can be.
Unfortunately, teachers are not as receptive to emotional cues as they would be in an ideal world.
I cringe at the thought of what some of my former teachers would have been like if they were trying to be sensitive to my emotional needs.I'll get you my pretty, and your little hermit crab too!
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08-28-2007, 06:32 AM #4
I saw on the news that there is a drug that has been developed which largely negates the effect of emotion on learning. They tested it on rats by putting the rat in a large, circular tub of water with a hidden platform submerged just below the surface in the middle of the tub. The rat would swim around and around the edge of the tub until eventually it swam across the tub and discovered the platform on which it could stand. Without the drug, the rat would find the platform extremely quickly after it had found it once before. Rats which had the drug administered to them would take very nearly as long to rediscover the platform as they had the first time.
The idea, as I understand it, is to use the drug to prevent post-traumatic stress disorder, which (I think) is believed to derive from extreme instances of the phenomenon outlined in the OP. I think it was also suggested that it could be used on people immediately after they have been in a high-stress incident (eg rape, car accident etc) to ameliorate the psychological impact of said incident.
I would find links, but I can't be bothered.
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08-28-2007, 06:53 AM #5
I was thinking of the same 60 Minutes news story, when I read the OP, Jeff.
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