Comments for sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/the-brain-that-changes-itself

Comment #2002

2010-05-24T20:06:47Z

Going barefoot makes you SMARTER!!!

Comment #2001

2010-05-19T23:52:12Z

I'm fascinated with the possibilities for school, and education, and the entire realm of special ed. Lots to think on.

Comment #2000

2010-05-19T17:05:53Z

I knew Jon had something to do with brain scanning, so I figured he might at least have heard the names.

Comment #1999

2010-05-19T16:03:10Z

Jon has been telling me for years to not watch my feet when I go downstairs...

Marcel Just was Jon's boss at CMU when we first got married.

Comment #1998

2010-05-18T21:46:11Z

Sounds fascinating, hopeful and a little scary.

I chuckled at the part about sitting in front of a piano and just mentally practicing for TWO HOURS a day for five days. My mind would start to wander in the first two minutes!

Comment #1997

2010-05-18T17:58:30Z

One more, close to my heart:

"Learning a new culture as an adult requires that one use new parts of the brain, at least for language. Brain scans show that people who learn one language and then, after a time lag, learn another store the languages in separate areas. When bilingual people have strokes, they sometimes lose the ability to speak one language but not the other. Such people have distinct neuronal networks for their two languages, and perhaps for other aspects of their two cultures. But brain scans also show that children raised learning two languages simultaneously during the critical period develop an auditory cortex that represents both languages together. This is why Merzenich advocates learning as many different language sounds as possible in early childhood: such children develop a single, large cortical library of sounds and have an easier time learning languages later in life."

Bring on the HIPPO tapes!