Several parents have recently inquired about the effect videogames have on the development of a child’s brain—and how much time they should allow their children to play videogames. The simple answer is that although all childhood thought and behavior affect brain maturation at some level, no one really knows the long-term effects of something as…
Last month’s column introduced Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg’s marvelous new book, The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind (2001). The column focused especially on his conceptualization of our brain’s overall organization. Let’s now focus on our cortex’s frontal lobes, which are central to a functioning human brain, and to Goldberg’s book. Survival is dependent…
The split brain research of several decades ago sparked many educators’ interest in our brain’s organization. The hemispheric separation of selected cognitive functions made sense to teachers who had long observed personality and ability differences in developing brains. Although the right-brain/left-brain rhetoric and learning styles inventories that emerged often went far beyond what neuroscientists had…
