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Twardosz, Sandra – Early Education and Development, 2012
Research Findings: Research on the effect of experience on the structure and function of the brain across the lifespan pertains directly to the concerns of professionals involved with children's early development and education. This paper briefly reviews (a) the role of experience in shaping the developing brain, (b) individual adaptation to the…
Descriptors: Brain, Teaching Methods, Neurology, Child Development
Arndt, Petra A. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2012
The design of learning spaces is rightly gaining more and more pedagogical attention, as they influence the learning climate and learning results in multiple ways. General structural characteristics influence the willingness to learn through emotional well-being and a sense of security. Specific structural characteristics influence cognitive…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Interaction
Puk, Tom – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2012
Since WW2, degradation of our global natural systems has been on the increase. Much of this degradation has been communicated to the general public via mainstream media and yet human behaviours do not seem to have changed significantly as a result. It is argued in this paper that the manner in which our brains and minds work, in particular in…
Descriptors: Ecology, Brain, Cognitive Development, Science Education
Casey, B. J.; Jones, Rebecca M. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: Adolescence is a developmental period that entails substantial changes in risk-taking behavior and experimentation with alcohol and drugs. Understanding how the brain is changing during this period relative to childhood and adulthood and how these changes vary across individuals are key in predicting risk for later substance abuse and…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Drug Abuse, Adolescents, Brain

Bratt, H. Marvin – School Science and Mathematics, 1979
The performance of elementary school children on tasks requiring right and left hemisphere function was investigated and asymmetries in hemisphere function were discovered. (MP)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Educational Research

Carey, Susan; Diamond, Rhea – Science, 1977
Research shows that children of about 10 years can remember photographs of faces upside down almost as well as those shown upright and are easily fooled by simple disguises. This ability to encode orientation-specific configurations of a face may reflect maturational changes in the right cerebral hemisphere. (MLH)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Child Development, Learning, Neurological Organization