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The Learning Brain.


The Learning Brain

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore & Uta Frith frith  
n. Scots
A firth.



[Alteration of firth.]

Frith woods or wooded country collectively. See also forest.
 

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Very strongly recommended, The Learning Brain: Lessons For Education deftly deft  
adj. deft·er, deft·est
Quick and skillful; adroit. See Synonyms at dexterous.



[Middle English, gentle, humble, variant of dafte, foolish; see daft.
 co-authored by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Noun 1. Dorothy Hodgkin - English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, Hodgkin
 Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Noun 1. cognitive neuroscience - the branch of neuroscience that studies the biological foundations of mental phenomena
neuroscience - the scientific study of the nervous system
, University College, London) and Uta Frith (Professor of Cognitive Development and Deputy Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London) is an informed and informative body of work specifically designed to guide non-specialist general readers seeking learn more of how the mind works. The Learning Brain documents and details a significant amount of what human's understanding of how the mind works, and summarizes the information in a "user-friendly" manner to enlighten en·light·en  
tr.v. en·light·ened, en·light·en·ing, en·light·ens
1. To give spiritual or intellectual insight to:
 the reader with ease. Enhanced with an Appendix, suggestions for further reading, a glossary, illustration resources and credits, as well as a comprehensive index, The Learning Brain is a strongly recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library Psychology reference collections and supplemental reading lists.
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Title Annotation:The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education
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Date:Mar 1, 2006
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