1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783306003321

Autore

Fisch Shalom M

Titolo

Children's learning from educational television [[electronic resource] ] : Sesame Street and beyond / / Shalom M. Fisch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2004

ISBN

1-282-32608-2

9786612326080

1-4106-1055-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

LEA's communication series

Disciplina

371.33/58

Soggetti

Television in education - United States

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 (p. 209-238) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Children's Learning From Educational Television: Sesame Street and Beyond; Contents; Preface; 1-Introduction; PART I-EMPIRICAL DATA; PART II-THEORETICAL APPROACHES; PART III-THE FUTURE; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

At its best, educational television can provide children with enormous opportunities and can serve as a window to new experiences, enrich academic knowledge, enhance attitudes and motivation, and nurture social skills. This volume documents the impact of educational television in a variety of subject areas and proposes mechanisms to explain its effects. Drawing from a wide variety of research spanning several disciplines, author Shalom M. Fisch analyzes the literature on the impact of educational resources. He focuses on television programs designed for children rather than for adults, althoug



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830673303321

Titolo

Human brain evolution [[electronic resource] ] : the influence of freshwater and marine food resources / / edited by Stephen C. Cunnane and Kathlyn M. Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010

ISBN

1-282-72871-7

9786612728716

0-470-60988-5

0-470-60987-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CunnaneStephen C

StewartKathlyn Moore

Disciplina

612.8/2

Soggetti

Brain - Evolution

Human evolution

Cognition

Seafood

Nutritional anthropology

Aquatic resources

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Macroevolutionary patterns, exaptation and emergence in the evolution of the human brain and cognition / Ian Tattersall -- Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in human brain evolution / Michael A. Crawford -- Human brain evolution : a question of solving key nutritional and metabolic constraints on mammalian brain development / Stephen C. Cunnane -- Metabolic and molecular aspects of the critical role of docosahexaenoic acid in human brain function / J. Thomas Brenna -- Lessons from shore-based hunter-gatherer diets in East Africa / Frits A.J. Muskiet and Remko S. Kuipers -- Thyroid hormone, iodine and human brain evolution / Sebastiano Venturi and Michel E. Bégin -- Food for thought : the role of coastlines and aquatic resources in human evolution / Jon M. Erlandson -- The case for



exploitation of wetlands environments and foods by pre-sapiens hominins / Kathlyn M. Stewart -- Brain size in carnivoran mammals that forage at the land-water ecotone, with implications for robust australopithecine paleobiology / Alan B. Shabel -- Coastal diet, encephalization and innovative behaviours in the late Middle Stone Age of southern Africa / John Parkington -- Human brain evolution : a new wetlands scenario / Stephen C. Cunnane and Kathlyn M. Stewart.

Sommario/riassunto

The evolution of the human brain and cognitive ability is one of the central themes of physical/biological anthropology. This book discusses the emergence of human cognition at a conceptual level, describing it as a process of long adaptive stasis interrupted by short periods of cognitive advance. These advances were not linear and directed, but were acquired indirectly as part of changing human behaviors, in other words through the process of exaptation (acquisition of a function for which it was not originally selected). Based on studies of the modem human brain, certain prerequisites were n