The learning brain : memory and brain development in children / Torkel Klingberg ; translated by Neil Betteridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klingberg, Torkel, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child development.

Cognition in children.

Learning.

Memory in children.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Being Unlucky When You Think: The Importance of Working Memory 1

Remembering What to Concentrate on 2

Why Do Students Daydream? 3

The Working Memories of the Nynäshamn Children 5

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Children with Low Working Memories 8

2 The Growing Brain: How the Brain Develops and Matures 13

The Development of the Brain 15

The Brain Matures 17

Genes and the Brain 20

The White Matter 22

3 Through the Pyrenees by Motorbike: The Risk-Taking Teenage Brain 25

Risks and Rewards 26

Neuroscience and the Law 29

4 Now I Am Really Awake for the First Time Ever: Long-Term Memory 33

Children's Long-Term Memory 34

The Key to the Memory 36

Improving the Long-Term Memory 43

5 Mathematics, Memory, and Space 49

Counting Babies 53

Retaining Numbers in Working Memory 56

The Mnemonic Map 58

Mathematical Areas 61

Mathematics and Gender 63

Dyscalculia-Does It Exist? 65

Premature Birth and Dyscalculia 68

Training Programs 70

6 Reading, Dyslexia, and Problematic Relationships 73

Learning to Read 74

Reading Areas of the Brain and Dyslexia 76

Dyslexia: Genetics and Displaced Cells 78

Why the Problems Are Interconnected 80

Dyslexia Training and Neuroscientific Predictions 83

7 The Early Environment and Brain Development: The Importance of Stimulation and Engaged Parents 87

Stimulating Environments and Brain Development 91

The Role of Parents in Memory and Stress 94

8 Skydiving and Expectations: What Acute and Chronic Stress Do to Us 99

Stress Hormones and Nerve Cells 101

Social Stress 103

Chronic Stress 106

9 Cognitive Training, Memory Techniques, and Music 111

The Dream of the Perfect Memory 112

The Brain of a Memory Champion 114

Working Memory Training 116

The Art of Training 120

Can Everything Be Trained? 124

Music 126

10 Body and Soul 131

Jogging and the Brain 132

Intelligence and Infections 137

11 This Will Change Everything 141

Five Themes 142

A Schoolgirl of the Future 145.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-171) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Klingberg, Torkel, 1967- Learning brain.

ISBN:

9780199917112

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.