Showing posts with label Neuroscience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Neuroscience. Show all posts

Friday, May 7, 2010

Will you take these study aid pills?

I read an article on Discover and it uncovers that 7 percent of
students in United States has been using drugs to boost study. The
drug called Ritalin, which normally is used for children who have
attention deficit hyperactive disorder. People who take Ritalin their
brain dopamine receptor activities will be boost, which increasing
learning efficiency and focusing. Lab test shows that rats had taken
Ritalin learn faster than those had not given the drug. I think it is
outrageous. It is a bio-ethic problem. If students can take pills to
boost learning, what happen to those students who don't or who cannot
afford the pills. And, I am sure about that some companies will rase
advertisement campaign to market themselves as "study aid" for
students. Then our future generation will fall into these pills or
companies. In the articles, it also points out that students could
also easily feel the pressure to take those pill by the the influence
of their peers directly and indirectly. I personally will not take
those pill to aid study. I won't agree this unnatural way to change
your brain chemical for study. It could become another future social
inequality question. In the last, I will never want or my future
generations every time go for public exam will be request for blood
sample.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Neurolinguistic

This week article from my database (my computer) is neruolinguistic. I remember a video I watched once from TED it mentioned about when people listen people talk different parts of your brain have different part of function. (they were using EMP [Electromagnetic pulse] to test). For instance, when you encounter a new word different part of your brain activity will show up on a EMP monitor. Some are related to listening, some are related to analysis the new word, some are related to memorizing. Once, your brain familiar the word, only less brain activity would show up on the screen. I believe the guy developed the philosophy was J.H. Jackson (at least similar), 1874. Amazingly, people make right philosophy even when they didn't have the technology for it. Neruolinguistic today was study to help people overcome when they have language disorder. I learnt that one of the word for it is " propositionalize", I guess it means people cannot put word into sentence. Most people have language disorder is related to brain damage.

Words related to neurolinguistic: aphasia, psycholinguistic

It is interesting to know all of this. Originally, I was looking an article which might help me learn English easier, somehow I was interested about neurolinguistic too, because one of new recent favorite topic is neuroscience. Another related article in future I am going to look for should be psycholinguistic.

P.S. 1 thing I didn't mention was there is study show that language and memory are interdependent. It make a lot of sense. If you have a good memory, then you are easier to learn and speak a language, but what I wonder is if people try to learn different languages will it help boost people memory. The most useful way to think is if you are interested to learn French and Spanish, will it do better job for people to attempt to learn both in a same time or separately. Or, if you have a baby, do you want only teach the baby your mother language and English, or you want to put a third language on the baby too.