Mapping the mouse mind

Mapping the mind

Using Concept Mapping and Mind Mapping in Descriptive and Narrative Writing Classes

This study was an attempt to investigate the comparative impact of concept map and mind map instruc- tion on EFL learners’ descriptive and narrative writing. To fulfill this purpose, 60 intermediate EFL learners were selected from among a total number of 100 through their performance on a pretest, i.e., a piloted sample Cambridge Preliminary English Test (PET). T...

Modular mind mapping

Concept maps, or mind maps as learning tools mirror the knowledge constructed through observation of events or objects in relation to the concepts already known. Different types of computer based concept mapping tools allow various forms of expressions and the versatility of some special tools promote their use from providing course maps for users to adaptations of learners knowledge maps. Modu...

Brain mapping: Faradization of the mind

Electromagnetic induction of focal currents in the brain - 'transcranial magnetic stimulation' - can be used to study cortical development and plasticity, as well as the organization of sensory and cognitive functions. It may also prove to be useful tool in the treatment of depression.

The eye's mind: brain mapping and psychiatry.

possible to visualise living human brain structure and function in astonishing detail. To pioneering investigators such as Jackson, Meynert, Wernicke, Freud, Alzheimer and Kraepelin our current capacity to image brain structure to the nearest millimetre, and cerebral haemodynamics to the nearest second, would surely have appeared heaven-sent. With these techniques, they might have envisaged a c...