Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Foreword: Towards a new pedagogical and didactic approach
- Part I The mind, brain, and education triad
- Part II Brain development, cognition, and education
- Part III Brain, language, and mathematics
- 11 A triptych of the reading brain: Evolution, development, pathology, and its intervention
- 12 Reading and the brain: A cross-language approach
- 13 Cortical images of early language and phonetic development using near infrared spectroscopy
- 14 Cerebral constraints in reading and arithmetic: Education as a “neuronal recycling” process
- Index
- References
13 - Cortical images of early language and phonetic development using near infrared spectroscopy
from Part III - Brain, language, and mathematics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Foreword: Towards a new pedagogical and didactic approach
- Part I The mind, brain, and education triad
- Part II Brain development, cognition, and education
- Part III Brain, language, and mathematics
- 11 A triptych of the reading brain: Evolution, development, pathology, and its intervention
- 12 Reading and the brain: A cross-language approach
- 13 Cortical images of early language and phonetic development using near infrared spectroscopy
- 14 Cerebral constraints in reading and arithmetic: Education as a “neuronal recycling” process
- Index
- References
Summary
Overview
Educational neuroscience provides powerful tools and new knowledge to help researchers and educators to build on cognitive neuroscience to open new perspectives for education and for remediation of young children at risk. A promising new tool is Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS), which can be used with very young children to explore many cognitive capacities and performances. In particular, NIRS gives solid evidence for the existence of language-specific neural networks in infants well before they can speak. For linguistic stimuli, the networks include the left superior temporal gyrus and Broca's area, areas that are strongly involved in language in older children and adults. Brain imaging research can provide new arguments and tests for a model of language acquisition based on the early endowment of specific linguistic areas. Educational neuroscience research can address many other educationally relevant questions in a similar way.
The Editors
Revolutions can start in unlikely places. Beginning around twenty years ago, researchers in hospital sub-basements began using new brain imaging technology to look inside the skulls of volunteers while they were alive and performing a variety of cognitive tasks. This exciting imaging technology, designed to detect brain areas that drank up more oxygen than others during specific cognitive tasks, was used to discover how the brain was organized and which systems of neural areas made possible the spectacular mental functions that we humans enjoy.
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- The Educated BrainEssays in Neuroeducation, pp. 213 - 231Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008
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