Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Galinsky, Ellen (2010-04-20), Mind in the Making, HarperCollins, Retrieved on 2013-12-30Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: Memes
30 DEC 2013
The Prefontal Cortex
Executive functions take place in the prefrontal cortex of the brain. I love the term that Stanislas Dehaene uses to describe this part of the brain—a global neuronal workspace. The prefrontal cortex is responsible for the ability to exchange information across the high-level areas of the brain, Dehaene says, so that our behavior can be guided by our accumulated knowledge. That’s the beauty and the purpose of executive functions: they enable us to control ourselves, to reflect deeply, and to ...Insightful description of its purpose in executive function, taking the information stored in our brains to control the rest of it.
30 DEC 2013
The Tapping Game
The tapping game is when I tap one time, you tap two times, and when I tap two times, you tap one time. Children play this game sixteen times, mixing up the times that children are asked to tap once when the experimenter taps twice, and tap twice when the experimenter taps once. In other words, the rules of the game keep changing, and the children need to apply their focus and attention to follow what’s going on. Blair says: What happens with four-year-olds is, in general, they’ll hang in the...A game for children to learn focus.