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Watching the Brain Learn

Following a link a few months ago I found this facinating article written by R.Douglas Fields on Scientific American website called "Watching the brain learn" It seems that only half of the brain is "grey matter" The rest is made up of  relatively un-researched white matter which, as this article says, appears to be extremely influential [...]
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A question of curry

The Friday night ritual of watching TV while waiting for the Indian take-away to be delivered inspires Paul to double the amount of visual imagery he uses in his workshops this year.
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The Mozart effect debunked

For many years I have been aware of the generally held view that playing Baroque music, specifically Mozart, can have a beneficial impact on learning and retention. Some have even suggested playing Mozart to children can improve IQ and the common reason given for this is the “Mozart Effect”. On a quiet day in the office recently [...]
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Smelling mistooks dont mutter

Researchers have shown that when we read, the brain looks for patterns. No surprise there as this is what the brain is brilliant at. In this post Paul explores 2 of these patterns. First and last letters and upper case vs lower case and the impact they have on our flip charts and need to spell correctly.
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As Debbie Harry would say: “Picture this”

During the late 1990s I was working as an internal consultant for a large American organisation implementing lean manufacturing into a number of our European factories. One of the concepts we were working on was the “visual workplace” Wherever possible, this involved removing reams of work instructions and procedural manuals and replacing them with flow charts and [...]
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