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Martin Vögeli schrieb / wrote: Article: The Magical Number Seven: Warum Navigationen nur sieben Punkte und Lernobjekte sieben Informationen umfassen sollen. Ein Artikel von George A. Miller aus dem Jahr 1956: "And finally, what about the magical number seven? What about the seven wonders of the world, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins, the…

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=8028 schrieb / wrote: Research: Brain blanket boosts mind control: Researchers at Albany Medical College, Washington University, the University of Washington, the University of Wisconsin have developed a more effective brain-control interface device, using a sheet of closely spaced electrodes placed over the brain. In recent experiments, five patients learned to control a computer cursor…

http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/learning_theories/ schrieb / wrote: Video: Learning theories: Stanton Wortham from Wharton/University of Penn describes the popular learning theories in use today and the assumptions they make about how people learn. He describes these theories in 4 videos. Very refreshing stuff. http://www.learningwiki.com/theory phpBB(Topic1109|Post3282)

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id=6452 schrieb / wrote: Study: Meetings make us dumber, study shows: People have a harder time coming up with alternative solutions to a problem when they are part of a group, new research suggests. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17279961/ phpBB(Topic1109|Post2997)

http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/how_not_to_talk_to_your_kids/ schrieb / wrote: Article: How Not to Talk to Your Kids: A fantastic read by Po Bronson on the perils of praising your kids. (thanks Venkat): "When parents praise their children’s intelligence, they believe they are providing the solution to this problem. According to a survey conducted by Columbia University, 85 percent of American…

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id=5416 schrieb / wrote: Test: Online Test Calculates Brain Speed: San Francisco-based Posit Science unveiled a program that tests how fast a person’s brain can process information, based on his or her hearing speed. http://news.com.com/Online+test+calculates+brain+speed/2100-11395_3-6053430.html phpBB(Topic1109|Post2474)

http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007280.asp schrieb / wrote: Article: What are we doing when we look away during a conversation? Cognitive daily has an answer: ‚We get a great deal of information by looking at faces, and this information places a significant load on our cognitive systems. Perhaps, when we’re asked a difficult question and need to concentrate, looking…

http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007280.asp schrieb / wrote: Article: How ‚Gut Feelings‘ Influence Memory: Another good article by Cognitive Daily, this time is all about ‚gut feelings‘. Here’s how I understand it: we are likely to pick up hard memory under any context (e.g we can identify our wife under different contexts), but when the memory is soft or…

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=4727 schrieb / wrote: Article: Brain Workouts May Tone Memory: Proponents of ‚cognitive fitness‘ exercises say such mental conditioning can help prevent or delay memory loss and the onset of other age-related cognitive disorders. http://wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68409,00.html phpBB(Topic1109|Post2046)

http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007178.asp schrieb / wrote: Article: Why do we forget our childhood? This is a nice explanation for childhood amnesia, or ‚Why don’t adults remember events occurring before they were three or four years of age?‘. Research findings indicate that it has to do with the lack of language skills during those years to be able…