When and how neuroscience applies to education

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 421-423

  Willingham, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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EID: 40749112299     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170808900607     Document Type: Article

References (10)

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2. For more details, see Daniel T. Willingham and Elizabeth Dunn, "What Neuroimaging and Brain Localization Can Do, Cannot Do, and Should Not Do for Social Psychology," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 85, 2003, pp. 662-71;
3. and Daniel T. Willingham and John W. Lloyd, "How Can Brain Imaging Research Help Education?," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, 2007.
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7. For a review, see Daniel B. Willingham, "Memory Systems in the Human Brain," Neuron, January 1997, pp. 5-8.
8. Eraldo Paulesu et al., "Dyslexia: Cultural Diversity and Biological Unity," Science, vol. 291, 2001, pp. 2165-67.
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10. Kimberly A. Espy, Dennis L. Molfese, and Victoria J. Molfese, "Development of Auditory Event-Related Potentials in Young Children and Relations to Word-Level Reading Abilities at Age 8 Years," Annals of Dyslexia, June 2004, pp. 9-38.