LECTURES: Mind, Education, and the Brain

How the Brain Processes Emotion - Presentation on Dr. Immordino Yang's research on the relationship between emotions and learning. Dr. Immordino Yang is a postdoctoral researcher in the department of Neurosciences and the Rossier School of Education.

Lectures: Social and Affective Neuroscience in Education

Rossier School of Education brown bag series: Dr. Mary Helen Immordino Yang presents "The Relevance of Social and Affective Neuroscience to Education.

Persuaders, Opinion Makers and Public Relations

The Century of Self

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6


More information here on PBS program "The Persuaders" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/etc/synopsis.html

One of the original book on Public Relations by Edward Bernays

Wendell Potter author of book "Deadly Spin" describes the practices of public relations here

Public relations is a communication tool. It is like technology that can be put to good use to help people or it can be used to manipulate them for self serving purposes.

Brain and Learning

Here is an entire web site devoted to the issues of Brain and Learning funded by European Union.

Welcome to www.brainandlearning.eu

The website www.brainandlearning.eu has been designed to offer information about the relationship between the mind, the brain, learning capacity and education. The website has been established by the Centre for Brain & Learning at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. This centre, recently founded by the Brain & Behaviour Institute at Maastricht University, is a research, knowledge and expertise centre on this specific domain. The centre’s aim is to make scientific information about mind, brain and learning available to those who are interested. Therefore, this site has been created for not only professionals, such as scientists and educators, but also for policy makers, administrators, students, parents and essentially anyone who is interested in the link between brain and behaviour and the field of education. Clearly, the intention of this website is to inform both professionals and laymen alike.

This website is currently under construction and will be expanded in the near future. We endeavour to provide, on this website, up-to-date information on recent findings from the scientific literature, evidence-based as well as practice-based educational interventions, developments in educational policy and other news which might be relevant for those who are interested in the topic. The feature “Latest News” will cover relevant developments in the scientific literature as well as the possible implications of these developments for educational settings.

On behalf of the Centre for Brain & Learning and the Brain & Behaviour Institute,

Prof. Jelle Jolles,
Neuropsychologist,
Cognitive Neuroscientist
Director

21st century Learning Theories will be based upon the findings in cognitive and behavioral Neuroscience

Chimpanzee AI beat human on short memory Task

We think that we are bestowed with superior intelligence when compared with of the animal kingdom. Recently, the experimenters at the Primate Research institute in Kyoto University in Japan were able to train a chimpanzee named AI who performs better than humans on short term memory tasks.

Here is an article published in Guardian on the actual experiment.

This web page at Primate Research Institute Kyoto University, Japan provides the details of this novel experiment. Also a web page that provides videos of actual experiments.

Chimpanzee AI from Javed on Vimeo.

This experiment confirms that chimpanzees do have photographic memories and we do not that is why we invented media to augment our biological memories of past experiences.