Recent commentary on parenting has concentrated on the importance of the first three years with a particular emphasis on neuroscience. It is suggested that between 0 and 3 years the infant brain develops the capacity for empathy and concern but stress, abuse, deprivation, poor parenting, poverty or some combination of those and similar factors can prevent this development. More worryingly, once prevented, there is no means to later learn empathy and concern because of permanent changes in brain organization and brain chemistry.
This is a slide-deck from my recent presentation entitled: Brain, belief and the nature of Frankenstein at Frankenweek@UL.The week-long event marked the international celebration of the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for Halloween 2018. The workshop gave me the opportunity to explore how our brain provides differing insights, values and priorities in shaping beliefs, and in how we understand ourselves in the world.
This is a slide-deck from my recent presentation entitled: Brain, belief and the nature of Frankenstein at Frankenweek@UL.The week-long event marked the international celebration of the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for Halloween 2018. The workshop gave me the opportunity to explore how our brain provides differing insights, values and priorities in shaping beliefs, and in how we understand ourselves in the world.
Learn more about how your mind works and what you can do to make it work better! Easy to understand facts about the human mind and tips to train and stimulate your intellect.
Presentation by Val Gillies, London South Bank University, to The Uses and Abuses of Biology: Neuroscience, Parenting and Family Policy, 28 March 2014.
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Presentation by Dr Jan Macvarish, entitled The Uses and Abuses of Biology: Neuroscience, Parenting and British Family Policy, given to the conference of the same name on Friday 28 March 2014, Birkbeck, London University. The conference was organised by the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, the University of Kent.
Learn more about how your mind works and what you can do to make it work better! Easy to understand facts about the human mind and tips to train and stimulate your intellect.
Presentation by Val Gillies, London South Bank University, to The Uses and Abuses of Biology: Neuroscience, Parenting and Family Policy, 28 March 2014.
John Bruer Presentation to The Uses and Abuses of Biology: Neuroscience, Pare...ParentingCultureStudies
Presentation by Professor John T. Bruer, entitled 'Distortions of Neuroscience', to the conference The Uses and Abuses of Biology: Neuroscience, Parenting and British Family Policy, Friday 28 March 2014, Birkbeck, London University. Event organised by the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, the University of Kent.
Presentation by Dr Jan Macvarish, entitled The Uses and Abuses of Biology: Neuroscience, Parenting and British Family Policy, given to the conference of the same name on Friday 28 March 2014, Birkbeck, London University. The conference was organised by the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, the University of Kent.
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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
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2. Allen and Smith argue that there is a “sheer predictability of children’s early years for their future outcomes… if a child is born into a home where they are nurtured, where conversation takes place, where someone reads to them then, quite simply, their brain develops properly… it is in that delicate and vulnerable period [0-3 years] that our lives can be made or not.”
4. The report argues that there have been exciting new developments in neuroscience that we must capitalise on “to build a strong foundation for improved learning and behavior that will produce better outcomes in academic achievement, economic productivity, responsible citizenship, and succesful parenting of the next generation.”
9. Critical Periods Just 3-days of monocular deprivation just before 1-month of age causes a profound shift of cortical innervation to favour the non-deprived eye
11. Deprivation A healthy 3-year old with an average (50 th percentile) head size compared with an extremely neglected 3-year old (3 rd percentile)
12. Functional Implications Infants (mean age 9 yrs) placed into a Romanian orphanage by 6 weeks of age for a mean duration of 38 months before adoption compared with a control group of non-institutionalised infants There is reduced glucose metabolism in and around the hippocampus Chugani et al (2001) NeuroImage 14: 1290-1301
18. I’m a Mind, Get Me Out of Here “… we suppose that by conducting ever more penetrating brain scans… we shall understand how thought becomes possible. These expectations are not going to be fulfilled… We shall never be able to capture what happens between people in a brain scan. To be sure, we may see patches of colour that betray all kinds of neurological goings-on when individuals relate to one another. These events in the nervous system are a necessary part of the story. Yet they amount to only one small piece of a much broader picture. It is a picture that involves another person, and each person’s experience of the other. The roots of thought are embedded here.”
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Effect of early closure of one eye on the distribution of cortical neurons driven by stimulation of both eyes. (A) Ocular dominance distribution of single unit recordings from a large number of neurons in the primary visual cortex of normal adult cats. Cells in group 1 were activated exclusively by the contralateral eye, cells in group 7 by the ipsilateral eye. Diagrams below these graphs indicate procedure, and bars indicate duration of deprivation (purple). “Exp”= time when experimental observations were made. (B) Following closure of one eye from 1 week after birth until 2.5 months of age (indicated by the bar underneath the graph), no cells could be activated by the deprived ( contralateral ) eye. Some cells could not be activated by either eye (NR). Note that the closed eye is opened at the time of the experimental observations, and that the recordings are not restricted to any particular cortical layer. (C) A much longer period of monocular deprivation in an adult cat has little effect on ocular dominance (although overall cortical activity is diminished). In this case, the contralateral eye was closed from 12 to 38 months of age. (A after Hubel and Weisel, 1962; B after Wiesel and Hubel, 1963; C after Hubel and Wiesel, 1970 .)
The consequences of a short period of monocular deprivation at the height of the critical period in the cat. Just 3 days of deprivation in this example (A) produced a significant shift of cortical innervation in favor of the nondeprived eye; 6 days of deprivation (B) produced an almost a compete shift. Bars below each histogram indicate the period of deprivation, as in Figure 24.4 . (After Hubel and Wiesel, 1970 .)
Terminal arborizations of lateral geniculate nucleus axons in the visual cortex can change rapidly in response to monocular deprivation during the critical period . (A) After only a week of monocular deprivation, axons from the deprived eye have greatly reduced numbers of branches compared with those from the open eye. (B) Deprivation for longer periods does not result in appreciably larger changes. Numbers on the left of each figure indicate cortical layers. (After Antonini and Stryker, 1993 .)
Also has enlarged ventricles and evidence of cortical atrophy.
Both Mead and Vygotsky recognized that human beings do not merely enter into a world consisting of random elements, bric-a-brac, but they enter into a world of stuff that contain meaning and have symbolic status. Conscious awareness resides in the ability of the organism to indicate to itself the presence of that stuff. In this way, humans are able to control their responses rather than fall into reflexive actions. Vygotsky’s concern with consciousness as the organising feature of mind arose from his assault on Russian psychology’s focus on reflex and reaction and its inability to deal with will or intention except as mystical constructs. Mead and Vygotsky began an effort to draw behaviourism into a more complete formulation of the psychological self. But they were beaten…
The principal idea is that modes of thought and experience cannot be adequately understood as long as their social origins are obscured. All the ideas and sentiments which motivate an individual do not have their origin in him alone, and cannot be adequately explained solely on the basis of his individual life-experience. I imagine that is fairly obvious and uncontroversial when it is directed towards something like our attitudes towards terrorism or our contemplation of meaning but it is clearly more difficult and troublesome when it is directed towards something like the experience of pain. There is a major difficulty in translating across from what can be considered basic sentient experiences and the more complex reflection on those experiences.