Table of Contents
Sources vii
About the Authors xi
Acknowledgments xvi
Introduction xvii
PART ONE An Overview of the Brain
1. How Our Brain Constructs Our Mental World 3Richard Restak
2. Mirrors in the Mind 12Giacomo Rizzolatti, Leonardo Fogassi, and Vittorio Gallese
3. Alphabetized Entries from How to Explain a Brain 20Robert Sylwester
PART TWO The Brain in the Classroom: The Brain-Based Learning Debate
4. Neuroscience and Education 33Usha Goswami
5. In Search of . . . Brain-Based Education 51John T. Bruer
6. Learning Not by Chance: Enrichment in the Classroom 70Marian C. Diamond and Janet Hopson
7. Mind and Brain 89John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking
PART THREE The Thinking Brain: Memory, Cognition, and Intelligence
8. Learning and Remembering 109Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Uta Frith
9. Who Owns Intelligence? 120Howard Gardner
10. The Balance Theory of Wisdom 13Robert J. Sternberg
11. Remembrance of Emotions Past 151Joseph LeDoux
PART FOUR The Feeling Brain: Emotional and Social Foundations
12. We Feel, Therefore We Learn: The Relevance of Affective and Social Neuroscience to Education 183Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and Antonio Damasio
13. Selections from Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers 199Robert M. Sapolsky
14. The Effect of Violence and Stress in Kids’ Brains 216Ronald Kotulak
PART FIVE The Learning Brain: Language, Reading, and Math
15. The Literate Brain 229Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Uta Frith
16. Why Some Smart People Can’t Read 242Sally Shaywitz
17. What Happens in the Brain When Children Read 251Patricia Wolfe and Pamela Nevills
18. Small Heads for Big Calculations 273Stanislas Dehaene
19. Math Skills 301James P. Byrnes
PART SIX The Learning Brain: The Arts
20. The Brain and the Arts 331David A. Sousa
21. The Role of the Arts in Transforming Consciousness: Education Is the Process of Learning How to Invent Yourself 359Elliot W. Eisner
22. My Favorite Thing: Why Do We Like the Music We Like? 370Daniel J. Levitin
PART SEVEN The Exceptional Brain: When It Works Differently
23. Exploring Exceptional Brains 385Eric Jensen
24. Selections from The Minds of Boys 405Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens
25. The Great Continuum: Diagnosing Autism 413Temple Grandin
26. Broken Mirrors: A Theory of Autism 435Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Lindsay M. Oberman
Glossary 445
Credit Lines 455