Amygdala and social network size Supplementary information social network Social media picture Print this post Posted by Drs. Monday, January 31, 2011 Growing a Bigger Brain with a Larger Social Network The bigger your social network, the bigger your brain - well, at least your amygdala. But is having a bigger amygdala better? MORE >>

In addition to listening to the individual messages, we have to use bilateral brain pathways to resolve conflicts in what we heard (or what we think we heard) and piece together information. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon show us why it's hard for us to listen to two people talking at one time. And yes - it also affects teacher performance. MORE >>

After listening to a spoken phrase, test subjects who were asked to write down everything they heard had a harder time identifying the voice that was used More recent information about the verbal mediation suggests that individuals with stronger spatial ability are more susceptible to the verbal overshadowing effect.so MORE >>

Maybe students would fare better if a slight delay were given between asking questions and teaching new information. Or perhaps new information should be presented before questions were asked? Test subjects were asked to learn new scenes that were presented visually as they were remember what words they had read on a screen. MORE >>

In a Scientific American blog post Deep thought is dead, Long live deep thought , a bioinformatics analyst broods on the question, ‘Where are these jobs that will require such rapid “searching, browsing, assessing quality, and synthesizing the vast quantities of information?" Perhaps it's a trade-off. Eide Neurolearning Blog. MORE >>