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Rolls, Edmund T. – Brain and Cognition, 2004
The orbitofrontal cortex contains the secondary taste cortex, in which the reward value of taste is represented. It also contains the secondary and tertiary olfactory cortical areas, in which information about the identity and also about the reward value of odours is represented. The orbitofrontal cortex also receives information about the sight…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Stimuli, Associative Learning, Perceptual Development
Baltimore County Board of Education, Towson, MD. – 1974
One of the programs included in "Effective Reading Programs...," this program is designed to help primary level children achieve success in language development before a pattern of failure is established. The program began in 1969 and serves 219 first, second, and third graders. The program employs diagnostic measures to identify each…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Individualized Reading, Language Acquisition, Learning Modalities

Palmer, Thelma – English Journal, 1980
Proposes that offering students activities that exercise right-brain functions (nonverbal, nonrational, spatial, and intuitive) helps students become more fully developed human beings and better writers. (RL)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Humanistic Education

Cox, Maureen V.; Ralph, Matt Lambon – Educational Psychology, 1996
Presents the results of a study where five-, seven-, and nine-year olds were asked to draw three figures: one standing still and facing them, one standing still in profile, and one running in profile. Half drew from imagination and half drew from models. Discusses the differences between the efforts. (MJP)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Body Image