Evolution of the Learning Brain: Or How You Got to Be So Smart...

ISBN-13: 9781138824461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 238 str.

Paul Howard-Jones;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

How do brain regions that first appeared in fishes influence our learning today? How did primates evolve and what does it mean to have a "social brain"? What light does evolution shed on learning difficulties and disorders? How might technology influence how our brains evolve in the future? This fascinating book tells the emerging story of how learning has evolved. It provides a fresh perspective on the nature of human learning and on the educational implications today of a biological history that stretches across 600 million years.

Spis treści

List of Figures  Acknowledgements  Chapter 1. The Idea of Evolution  Chapter 2. Origins  Chapter 3. The Vertebrate Brain  Chapter 4. The Social Primate  Chapter 5. Homo – Social Cooperative Learners  Chapter 6. Speech  Chapter 7. The Arrival of Numeracy  Chapter 8. The Emergence of the Written Word  Chapter 9. Evolution Meets Education  Chapter 10. The Future of the Learning Brain  References