Char­lie Rose is launch­ing a 12-part Sci­ence Series. Where is he starting?

Yes: The Human Brain, “Explor­ing the human brain from psy­cho­analy­sis and Sig­mund Freud to the cut­ting edge of brain research”

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Learn­ing through a vir­tu­ous Learn­ing Cycle. That’s the mes­sage from Dr. James Zull, Pro­fes­sor of Biol­ogy and Bio­chem­istry at Case West­ern Uni­ver­sity, Direc­tor of UCITE (The Uni­ver­sity Cen­ter for Inno­va­tion in Teach­ing and Edu­ca­tion), and Pro­fes­sor of a Human Learn­ing and The Brain class.

Dr. Zull loves to learn. And to teach. And to build con­nec­tions. He has spent years build­ing bridges between neu­ro­bi­ol­ogy and ped­a­gogy, as a result of which he wrote The Art of Chang­ing the Brain: Enrich­ing the Prac­tice of Teach­ing by Explor­ing the Biol­ogy of Learn­ing, which shows how neu­ro­bi­o­log­i­cal research can inform and refine some of the best ideas in edu­ca­tional the­ory.
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On Fri­day we had the oppor­tu­nity to inter­view Pro­fes­sor David Rabiner. He is a Senior Research Sci­en­tist and the Direc­tor of Psy­chol­ogy and Neu­ro­science Under­grad­u­ate Stud­ies at Duke Uni­ver­sity, and also advo­cate for chil­dren and adults with ADD/ADHD.

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez (AF): wel­come, Pro­fes­sor Rabiner. Could you first pro­vide us with some back­ground on your research inter­ests?
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Wikipedia says “Recent stud­ies sug­gest that Work­ing Mem­ory can be improved by work­ing mem­ory train­ing (Kling­berg et al., 2002)…Per­haps of greater impor­tance, another study has found after a period of work­ing mem­ory train­ing an increase in a range of cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties and an increase in IQ test scores of approx­i­mately 8%.”

A search for “Torkel Kling­berg” in PubMed returns 26 papers pub­lished in peer-reviewed pub­li­ca­tions such as the Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Acad­emy of Child & Ado­les­cent Psy­chi­a­try, Jour­nal of Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science, and Nature Neu­ro­science.

We are happy to launch our Neu­ro­sci­en­tist Inter­view Series with an inter­view with Dr. Torkel Kling­berg.

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez (AF): Wel­come. Can you let us know where you work, and what your Lab does?
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