The Learning Brain (Den lärande hjärnan)

Torkel Klingberg

Humans cannot learn anything new without having the brain involved somehow in the process. Both math and reading requires that we have an arsenal of cognitive tools at hand: we need to have learned rules in the long term memory, we need to keep relevant information in the working memory and we need to be able to perform comparisons between numbers or letters.  In addition, quite a few areas also require motor skills and perceptual memories and skills.

 

The Learning Brain describes in an understandable way some of the most important processes going on in the brain during childhood, like how memory is divided, what parts of it that are involved and how it is all related to the child’s ability to learn in school. We also get insight in what it means when a memory is sensitive to distraction, what time it could be strengthened through repetition and what scientists today know about disorders in the development of the brain, in for example ADHAD, dyslexia and dyscalculia – knowledge both parents and teacher can have great use of in their work to help children in the best way.

 

Rights sold

Italy: Ponte

The Netherlands: Pearson

Norway: PAX

Sweden: Natur & Kultur

USA: Oxford University Press

 

Reviews

"This is exactly how good popular science should be: intelligent, informed and genuine - and very entertaining to read. Torkel Klingberg is also an exceptionally clever scientist, who doesn’t get speed blinded of his own knowledge, but retains a healthy skepticism, even against his own theories."

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