Why a Neuroscientist Lied to Her Kids – Mental Time Travel vis a vis Full Body Brain Memories
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
The following article was originally published in the Washington Post & written by Dr. Kelly Lambert. No link to the article is provided as the article has been taken down, but the previous link is to Dr. Lambert’s website. As I look out the window to my sunny backyard & leafy avocado & banana trees, […]
Tags: brain development, Dr Kelly Lambert, learning & development, memories, neuroscience
Finding inspiration for reading for the love & learning of it
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
Welcome to my office. That’s Galito (my kid’s cat) keeping guard of my library. My love of books often has me salivating over & buying books faster than I can read them. So based on my annual to do, to done, to’odle, I sought inspiration for getting the printed matter into my gray matter. I […]
Tags: brain based learning, brain development, peter levine, reading, trauma
Complexity of communication makes for a bigger brain
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Uncategorized
Thomas Sander, Executive Director of the Saguaro Seminar at Harvard writes an interesting blog post about how socializing expands brain size. Turns out Oxford scholars say the “more social creatures, among them humans, had the most rapidly expanding brain sizes to cope with the complexity of collaboration, social norms and coordination.” In other words species […]
Tags: brain development, brain-based, harvard, saguaro seminar, thomas sander