Background, Semi-Technical  

 

You know you are in a technical area when they start putting the adjectives after the nouns.  As we said in the introduction, we have hidden all the technical stuff under the mythical skin of the Thinkerer.  You don't need to know any technical stuff to use your brain effectively.   

But some people will want more technical background.  Here we give a non-technical (and therefore readable) overview of selected parts of this background.  Much of this overview is derived from pages that appeared first in the blogs mentioned on the right. 

Brain modules
 

 

 

 

The Psychology of Thinkering

Authors

Cognitive Engineering

Evolutionary Psychology

See these blogs:
Cognitive Engineering & the Secret of the Moderns

The Thinkerer's Guide to Homework

The Pandemonium model for learning. Bee Brain

Pandemonium

Mirror Neurons Wikipedia

Know the Empaths

Brain sprints See research by:
Princeton University psychologist Emily Pronin.
As detailed in the Dec. 20 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers, using functional magnetic resonance imaging, found that when a person watches someone else [on video] perform a task with the intention of later replicating the observed performance, motor areas of the brain are activated in a fashion similar to that which accompanies actual movement.

Sounds like a collaboration between the Empath and the Explorer. 

Watching With Intent To Repeat Ignites Key Learning Area Of Brain

Know the Empaths
Know the Explorers

Remembering the future.  Forecasting and memory
   
The Thinkerer 10/28/2008
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