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Barbieri, Richard – Independent School, 2015
More has been learned about the human brain in the past few decades than in the whole prior history of humanity. In this article Richard Barbieri considers learning and the brain from a few different perspectives. He begins by examining the practice of neuroscience itself and what was understood about the brain before neuroscience. This leads to a…
Descriptors: Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Neurosciences, Influence of Technology
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Curtis, Laurie; Fallin, Jana – Music Educators Journal, 2014
An expanding body of evidence based on cognitive neuroscience provides music teachers with information about the interaction of music instruction and brain development. This information is foundational for those interested in the biology of teaching in addition to the curriculum taught. Pedagogy can be grounded in research-based insights on how…
Descriptors: Success, Neuropsychology, Music, Music Education
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Loh, Marco; Schmid, Gabriele; Deco, Gustavo; Ziegler, Wolfram – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2010
Audiovisual speech perception provides an opportunity to investigate the mechanisms underlying multimodal processing. By using nonspeech stimuli, it is possible to investigate the degree to which audiovisual processing is specific to the speech domain. It has been shown in a match-to-sample design that matching across modalities is more difficult…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Models, Auditory Perception, Speech Communication
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Wilcox, Teresa; Woods, Rebecca; Chapa, Catherine; McCurry, Sarah – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Recent research indicates that by 4.5 months, infants use shape and size information as the basis for individuating objects but that it is not until 11.5 months that they use color information for this purpose. The present experiments investigated the extent to which infants' sensitivity to color information could be increased through select…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Infants, Visual Environment, Visual Perception
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Botuck, Shelly; And Others – American Journal of Mental Retardation, 1987
Auditory visual information equivalence in 15 mentally retarded and 15 intellectually average 12- to 13-year-olds found retarded subjects were more accurate on intra- than on intersensory tasks, whereas there was no such difference for average subjects. Tasks involving transposition were more difficult than others for the retarded children.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Mental Retardation
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Debuse, Justin C. W.; Hede, Andrew; Lawley, Meredith – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
This study investigates the application of voice recognition technology to online lectures focusing on the efficacy of the text component of a multimedia presentation. Specifically, participants were provided with online access to multimedia instructional packages comprising an image of the lecturer with accompanying computer slides, plus…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Semantics, Multimedia Instruction, Lecture Method