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Age differences in callosal contributions to cognitive processes 2011 — In many cases bilateral cortical activation in older adults has been associated with better task performance, suggesting that a greater reliance on interhemispheric interactions aids performance. Interhemispheric communication is primarily mediated via the corpus callosum (CC), however with advancing age the anterior half of the CC undergoes significant atrophy.
Age-related dedifferentiation and compensatory changes in the functional network underlying face processing 2013 — Recent evidence has shown that older adults fail to show adaptation in the right fusiform gyrus (FG) to the same face presented repeatedly, despite accurate detection of the previously presented face.
Aging and the Neural Correlates of Successful Picture Encoding: Frontal Activations Compensate for Decreased Medial-Temporal Activity 2005 — We investigated the hypothesis that increased prefrontal activations in older adults are compensatory for decreases in medial-temporal activations that occur with age.
Aging Gracefully: Compensatory Brain Activity in High-Performing Older Adults 2002 — Whereas some older adults show significant cognitive deficits, others perform as well as young adults. We investigated the neural basis of these different aging patterns using positron emission tomography (PET).
A Judge’s Introduction to Neuropsychological Assessments 2001 — Neuropsychological tests measure cortical dysfunctions that are the result of damage rather than normal aging, personality traits, or a host of psychiatric conditions. Such damage or intellectual deficits can be the result of such neurological insults as head trauma, infection, toxins, substance abuse, bleeding, or tumor.
A Review of Functional Brain Imaging Correlates of Successful Cognitive Aging 2011 — Preserved cognitive performance is a key feature of successful aging. Several theoretical models (compensation, hemispheric asymmetry reduction, and posterior-anterior shift) have been proposed to explain the putative underlying relationship between brain function and performance. We aimed to review imaging studies of the association between brain functional response and cognitive performance among healthy younger and older adults in order to understand the neural correlates of successful cognitive aging.
A Review of the Relation of Aerobic Fitness and Physical Activity to Brain Structure and Function in Children 2011 — Overall, the extant literature suggests that childhood aerobic fitness is associated with higher levels of cognition and differences in regional brain structure and function. Indeed, it has recently been found that aerobic fitness level even predicts cognition over time.
Bibliography of Recent Books on the Brain 2008 — list of an astonishing number, excluding highly technical or medical texts.
Brain Facts A PRIMER ON THE BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM 2008 — This book provides only a glimpse of what is known about the nervous system, the disorders of the brain, and some of the exciting avenues of research that promise new therapies for many neurological diseases.
Brain Function Robert P. Lehr Jr., Ph.D. 2015 — Brain Function and Deficits In traumatic brain injury the brain may be injured in a specific location or the injury may be diffused to many different parts of the brain. It is this indefinite nature of brain injury that makes treatment unique for each individual patient.
Brain Networks Associated with Cognitive Reserve in Healthy Young and Old Adults 2005 — In order to understand the brain networks that mediate cognitive reserve, we explored the relationship between subjects’ network expression during the performance of a memory test and an index of cognitive reserve.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) — committed to the development of mind and brain research aimed at investigating the psychological, computational, and neuroscientific bases of cognition. The term cognitive neuroscience has now been with us for almost three decades, and identifies an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the nature of thought.
Cognitive reserve and clinical expression of Alzheimer’s disease: evidence and implications for brain PET imaging 2014 — Cognitive reserve (CR) refers to the hypothesized capacity of an adult brain to cope with brain damage in order to minimize symptomatology.
Development of the Teenage Brain 2008 — — Adolescence is a time characterized by change — hormonally, physically, and mentally. We now know that some brain areas, particularly the frontal cortex, continue to develop well beyond childhood.
Executive Functions: Definitions, assessment, education/intervention -- Dr. George McCloskey 2005 — Notes from a Saskatchewan Educational Psychology Association seminar
It's on the Tip of Your Tongue You've Always Known That Name. Why Can't Your Brain Find It Now? 2008 — While TOTs are a sign of aging (and have been shown to correlate with specific brain changes), they are not a sign of impending dementia.
It’s on the Tip of My Tongue: What Happens When We Can’t Remember a Name 2014 — the “tip-of-the-tongue” phenomenon, or TOT – where we remember all sorts of things about something or someone but can’t seem to get the name out. Understanding how and why this happens is more than just a matter of helping us access random celebrity names: TOT opens a window into aphasia, a language disorder caused by stroke and other brain injuries in which people have a hard time remembering words and generating speech.
Learning, Arts, and the Brain The Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition 2008 — Learning, Arts, and the Brain, a study three years in the making, is the result of research by cognitive neuroscientists from seven leading universities across the United States. In the Dana Consortium study, released in March 2008, researchers grappled with a fundamental question: Are smart people drawn to the arts or does arts training make people smarter?
Mind, Brain, and Education: Implications for Educators 2011 — This issue of LEARNing Landscapes shares historically, theoretically, and practically how the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and education are working together to get a more cohesive understanding of the physiology of the brain, and to implement learning in more effective ways.
Numerical processing in the two hemispheres: Studies of a split-brain patient 2005 — Neuroimaging and lesion studies have provided insights into the neural mechanisms underlying numerical processing, yet the roles of the right and left hemispheres have not been systematically investigated within a single study. To address this issue, we investigated subitizing and magnitude comparison abilities in a split-brain patient.
Processing Faces and Facial Expressions 2003 — This paper reviews processing of facial identity and expressions. The issue of independence of these two systems for these tasks has been addressed from different approaches over the past 25 years. More recently, neuroimaging techniques have provided researchers with new tools to investigate how facial information is processed in the brain.
Research in Brain Function and Learning — It is important for teachers and parents to understand that maturation of the brain influences learning readiness. For teachers, this is especially important when designing lessons and selecting which strategies to use.
Science on Adolescent Development 2012 — “The body of scientific study…continues to confirm that compared with adults, the unique developmental characteristics of adolescents’ brains lead to more impulsive behavior, the failure to comprehend consequences, and an underdeveloped sense of self, all of which may cause poor decisions and reckless actions. Adolescents also are particularly susceptible to negative environmental influences, which in turn may influence brain biology in a way that compounds the characteristics associated with their unique developmental stage
Seeing inside the brain 2004 (book chapter from SAGE publishing) — With the advent of brain scanning in the past twenty-five years, there has been nothing short of a revolution in our understanding of the brain. This brief chapter will describe the main forms of brain scanning that provide the basis for much of the evidence referred to in this book.
The Adolescent Brain: A Work in Progress -2011 — Neuroscience has made great strides in shedding light on the changes occurring in the teen’s brains and why they behave the way they do.
The Adolescent Brain: A Work in Progress Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D. Brita Elvevåg, Ph.D Jay N. Giedd, M.D. June 2005 — The paper presented here, authored by international experts in adolescent brain development Drs. Daniel Weinberger, Jay Giedd, and Brita Elvevåg, begins to fill this gap by making a very simple point: neurological development is an important dimension of overall adolescent development, and our efforts to understand, guide and help teens should be based in part on a deeper appreciation of adolescent neurobiology
The Cognitive Benefits of Being Bilingual 2012 — Researchers have shown that the bilingual brain can have better attention and task-switching capacities than the monolingual brain, thanks to its developed ability to inhibit one language while using another.
The Dana Sourcebook of Brain Science Third Edition 2003 — Resources for Secondary and Post-Secondary Teachers and Students
The Ontario Brain Institute — By the time we reach adulthood, our heads each contain up to 176,000 kilometers of wiring, in the form of impossibly fine organic filaments known as “axons.” These tiny wires connect billions of thickets of firing synapses, shuttling an almost unimaginable volume of signal traffic from our senses into the brain, from one part of the brain to another, and from the brain to the rest of our bodies. This connecting network weaves together the diverse and widely distributed activity of our neurons into co-ordinated thought and action, plus the rich resource of memory.
The Relation Between Instrumental Musical Activity and Cognitive Aging 2011 — : Intensive repetitive musical practice can lead to bilateral cortical reorganization. However, whether musical sensorimotor and cognitive abilities transfer to nonmusical cognitive abilities that are maintained throughout the life span is unclear. In an attempt to identify modifiable lifestyle factors that may potentially enhance successful aging, we evaluated the association between musical instrumental participation and cognitive aging.
Tip-of-the-Tongue States Yield Language Insights 2008 — Probing the recall of those missing words provides a glimpse of how we turn thoughts into speech and how this process changes with age
Towards a cognitive stimulation program using an errorless learning paradigm in amnestic mild cognitive impairment 2008 — Considering the high risk for amnestic mild cognitive impairment (A-MCI) individuals to progress towards dementia, it is crucial to study the effi cacy of innovative treatment strategies such as cognitive stimulation techniques. The present study is a case report of two individuals presenting with A-MCI who were enrolled in a memory training program.
Your Brain on Google: Patterns of Cerebral Activation during Internet Searching 2009 — Although the present findings must be interpreted cautiously in light of the exploratory design of this study, they suggest that Internet searching may engage a greater extent of neural circuitry not activated while reading text pages but only in people with prior computer and Internet search experience.