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Outline: Three Perspectives on Education and the Brain

• Bruer -- address two issues within “brain-based education”

  • existence of a critical or sensitive period for learning
  • how brain-based models (metaphors) attempt to map skills or cognitive functions onto the brain.

• Levitt -- developmental neurobiology and education.

• McCandliss -- cognitive neuroscience of language and literacy.

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