Juggling is one of the ancient ways of the neurological harmonization, but it became an activity only for the circus. However the challenges of the digital culture require the renewed activities of the ancient times to balance the effects of the over technicalisation, and to develop a whole brain effectiveness.

1. Juggling, art and the critical
thinking in the digital age
Dr. Éva Gyarmathy
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2. „I fear the day that technology will
surpass our human interaction. The
world will have a generation of
idiots.”
Albert Einstein

3. The change in the human brain
 Passive experience instead of active bodily
and neurological participation
 Using machines instead of actively taking
part
 Primarily visual experience in lieu of
kinaesthetic-sensory experience
 Ready-made pictures in lieu of image
formation

4. Different ways of thinking
LITERACY
Logical thinking
Details
Facts, relations
Words, language
Knowledge, science
Recognition
Systematic thinking
Knowing the name of things
Thinking in reality
Acting
Strategy
Sequentiality
AUDIO-VISUALITY
Feelings, intuition
Seeing as a whole
Imagination, patterns
Symbols, images
Philosophy, art
Beliefs
Spatial-visual thinking
Knowing how things work
Fantasy
Recognising possibilities
Taking risks
Simultaneity

5. Left Right
global
parallel
visual
Speech
Reading
Writing
Counting
Logic
Analysis
Relations
Parts
Visuality
Spatial
abilities
Imagination
Musicality
Emotions
Humor
Moving
Whole
analitical
sequential
verbal
Three types of information processing
Corpus callosum
KNOWLEDGE
COMPREHENSION
APPLICATION SYNTHESIS
ANALYSIS EVALUATION

6. • Strategic games
• Arts, music
• Sports
CULTURE = TRAINING OF THE BRAIN
TRAINING OF THE BRAIN = CULTURE

7. • Strategic games
• Arts, music
• Sports
Ancient solutions to connect the two
types of informantion processing
and create the third type
TRAINING OF THE BRAIN = CULTURE

8. Different ways of thinking
LITERACY
Logical thinking
Details
Facts, relations
Words, language
Knowledge, science
Recognition
Systematic thinking
Knowing the name of things
Thinking in reality
Acting
Strategy
Sequentiality
AUDIO-VISUALITY
Feelings, intuition
Seeing as a whole
Imagination, patterns
Symbols, images
Philosophy, art
Beliefs
Spatial-visual thinking
Knowing how things work
Fantasy
Recognising possibilities
Taking risks
Simultaneity
COMPREHENSION
SYNTHESIS
ANALYSIS EVALUATION

9. NEW TYPE OF INFORMATION
PROCESSING
LITERACY
Logical thinking
Details
Facts, relations
Words, language
Knowledge, science
Recognition
Systematic thinking
Knowing the name of things
Thinking in reality
Acting
Strategy
Sequentiality
AUDIO-VISUALITY
Feelings, intuition
Seeing as a whole
Imagination, patterns
Symbols, images
Philosophy, art
Beliefs
Spatial-visual thinking
Knowing how things work
Fantasy
Recognising possibilities
Taking risks
Simultaneity
Systematic thinking
Strategy
Fantasy
Spatial-visual thinking
Network thinking
SYNTHESIS
EVALUATION

10. Toward the network thinking
KNOWLEDGE COMPREHENSION APPLICATION ANALYSIS SYNTHESIS EVALUATION
BEFORE THE
LITERAL ERA
IN THE
LITERAL ERA
IN THE
DIGITAL ERA
holistic sequential holistic-sequential

11. Critical thinking
STRATEGY
Strategical thinking
+ Creative thinking
The information is available, now the
key is to choose and decide wisely.
Neurological harmony
HARMONY
CREATIVITY

12. gyarmathy.eva@gmail.com
http://www.diszlexia.hu/English.html
HARMONY

13. gyarmathy.eva@gmail.com
http://www.diszlexia.hu/English.html
http://www.literacyportal.eu
HARMONY

14. gyarmathy.eva@gmail.com
http://www.literacyportal.eu
http://www.slideshare.net/gyarme/li
ttle-cyborgs
HARMONY

15. • coordinating perception and movement;
• self-control;
• harmonizing the two brain hemispheres;
• improvement of attention;
• improvement of self-esteem;
• experiencing the effect of practice on achievement.
There are many curing effects of the juggling: