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Record Nr.

UNISA996215398703316

Autore

Cartwright Talula

Titolo

Developing your intuition [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to reflective practice / / Talula Cartwright ; editor, Peter Scisco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Greensboro, N.C., : Center for Creative Leadership, c2004

ISBN

1-118-15527-0

1-281-00131-7

9786611001315

1-118-15451-7

1-932973-25-7

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (31 p.)

Collana

CCL No. 425

Ideas into action guidebooks

Disciplina

153.4/4

Soggetti

Insight

Intuition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Table of Contents; Intuition and Reflection; Bringing It All Together; Tools for Reflective Practice; The Journal; Imaging; Dreams; Analysis; Emotions; From Reflection to Action; Suggested Readings; Background; Key Point Summary; Lead Contributor

Sommario/riassunto

Leaders often have to make decisions without complete information, and those decisions are expected to be not only right but also timely. Using reflective techniques can help you learn to depend on your intuition for help in making good decisions quickly. Reflective practices may seem time-consuming at the beginning, but the time you put in on the front end is well worth the investment. It will pay you back both in time and in the quality of the decisions you make.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136389403321

Autore

Virginia Penhune

Titolo

What we learn and when we learn it: sensitive periods in development

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Neurosciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The impact of training or experience is not the same at all points in development. Children who receive music lessons, or learn a second language before age 7-8 are more proficient as adults. Early exposure to drugs or trauma makes people more likely to become addicted or depressed later life. Rat pups exposed to specific frequencies from 9-13 days post-partum show expanded cortical representations of these frequencies. Young birds must hear and copy their native song within 1-2 months of birth or they may never learn it at all. These are examples of sensitive periods: developmental windows where maturation and specific experience interact to produce differential long-term effects on the brain and behavior. While still controversial, evidence for the existence of sensitive periods has grown, as has our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of brain plasticity. Behavioral evidence from studies of language, psychopathology or vision in humans has been complemented by evidence elucidating molecular, gene and hormonal mechanisms in animals. It has been proposed that sensitive periods can be both opened and closed by specific experience, and that there are multiple, overlapping sensitive periods that occur through-out development as functions come on line. It is also likely that experience-dependent behavioral or brain plasticity accrued during one sensitive period can serve as a scaffold on which later experience and plasticity can build. Based on current knowledge, there are a number of broad questions and challenges to be addressed



in this domain, these include: generating new information about the neurobiological mediators of structural and functional changes; proposing models of brain development that will better predict when sensitive periods should occur and what functions are implicated; investigation of the interaction between experience during a sensitive period and pre-existing individual differences; and the relationship between experience during a sensitive period and on-going experience. The goal of this Research Topic is to bring together scientists in different fields whose work addresses these issues, including animal and human developmental neuroscience, language and cognitive development, education, developmental psychopathology and sensory neuroscience.