Cognition Reading List
Jennifer Lange, CTL Coordinator
Chabot College
www.chabotcollege.edu/learningconnection/ctl
Articles
Leamnson, Robert, "Learning as Biological Change", Change, November/December 2000.
National Public Radio, Digital Overload: Your Brain on Gadgets, air date August 24, 2010 on Fresh Air.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129384107&ps=cprs
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr, Atlantic Magazine, July/August 2008.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/
"This Is Your Brain On Video Games", Steven Johnson, Discover Magazine, July 2007.
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/brain/video-games/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=
Bruer, John, "Education and the Brain: A Bridge Too Far", Educational Researcher, November 1997.
"Why Anxious Brains Have Trouble Choosing", Jim Scott, Futurity.org, http://www.futurity.org/sciencetechnology/why-making-a-choice-stresses-us-out/ .
"Your Brain on Books: Neuroscientist Stanislas Dahaene explains his quest to understand how the brain
processes written language", http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=your-brain-on-books
"Routes to Reading" by Maryanne Wolf, Mirit Barzillai, and Elizabeth Norton.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-reading-brain
"Overcoming Language Anxiety", Inside Higher Ed, June 29, 2007,
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/29/language .
Shackman, Alexander et. al, "Anxiety Selectively Disrupts Visuospatial Working Memory", Emotion ,
2006, Vol. 6, No. 1, 40–61.
http://psyphz.psych.wisc.edu/web/pubs/2006/Shackman.AnxietySelectively.Emotion.pdf
Ashcraft, Mark and Krause, Jeremy, "Working Memory, Math Performance, and Math Anxiety",
Psychometric Bulletin & Review, 2007, 14(2), 243-248. http://pbr.psychonomicjournals.org/content/14/2/243.full.pdf
"Anxiety Good For Memory Recall, Bad For Solving Complex Problems", ScienceDaily.com, Nov. 5, 2004.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041030154601.htm
David Glenn, 2009, "Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students", The Chronicle of
Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/article/Matching-Teaching-Style-to/49497/
"Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Do Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners Need Visual, Auditory, and
Kinesthetic Instruction?", Daniel Willingham, American Teacher, Summer 2005.
http://www.aft.org/newspubs/periodicals/ae/summer2005/willingham.cfm
Greene, Anthony, "Making Connections: The essence of memory is linking one thought to another",
Scientific American Mind, July/August 2010.
Carey, Benedict, "Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits", The New York Times,
September 6, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/health/views/07mind.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&ref=science
Zull, James, "Key Aspects of How the Brain Learns", The Neuroscience of Adult Learning, number 110,
Jossey-Bass, summer 2006. (Available in the CTL office.)
Karpicke, Jeffery D. and Blunt, Janell R., "Retrieval Practice Produces More Learning than Elaborative
Studying with Concept Mapping", Science, 11199327 Published online 20 January 2011
[DOI:10.1126/science.1199327] (Available in the CTL office.)
Belluck, Pam, "To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test", The New York Times, January 20, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/science/21memory.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper
Roediger III, Henry L.; Finn, Bridgid, "The Pluses of Getting it Wrong", Scientific American Mind,
Mar/Apr2010, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p38-41.
Goldin-Meadow, Susan, "Hands in the Air: Gestures reveal subconscious knowledge and cement new
ideas", Scientific American Mind, Sept/Oct 2010, Vol. 21 Issue 3, p48-55.
Cabrera, Derek and Colosi, Laura, "The World at our Fingertips: The sense of touch helps children to
ground abstract ideas in concrete experiences", Scientific American Mind, Sept/Oct 2010, Vol. 21 Issue 3,
p36-41.
Books
Ambrose, Bridges, DePietro, Lovett, and Norman, How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for
Smart Teaching, Jossey-Bass, 2010.
Arnheim, Rudolf, Visual Thinking, University of California Press, 1969.
Eisner, Elliot, Cognition and Curriculum Reconsidered, Teachers College Press, 1994.
Jensen, Eric, Brain-Based Learning: The New Paradigm of Teaching, 2nd edition, Corwin Press, 2008.
Jensen, Eric, Brain Compatible Strategies, 2nd edition, Corwin Press, 2004.
Jensen, Eric, Teaching with the Brain in Mind, 2nd edition, ASCD, 2005.
Johnson and Taylor (eds.), The Neuroscience of Adult Learning: New Directions for Adult and Continuing
Education, Number 110, Jossey-Bass, Summer 2006.
Leamnson, Robert, Thinking About Teaching and Learning: Developing Habits of Learning with First Year
College and University Students, Stylus, 1999.
Medina, John, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, Pear
Press, 2008.
National Research Council, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, Expanded Edition,
National Academy Press, 2000.
Schwartz and Begley, The Mind & The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force, Harper
Perennial, 2002.
Sousa, David, How the Brain Learns, third edition, Corwin Press, 2006.
Sousa, David, How the Brain Learns Mathematics, Corwin Press, 2008.
Sousa, David, How the Brain Learns to Read, Corwin Press, 2005.
Sousa, David, How the Special Needs Brain Learns, second edition, Corwin Press, 2007.
The Jossey-Bass Reader on The Brain and Learning, Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Willingham, Daniel, Why Don't Student's Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How
the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom, Jossey-Bass, 2009.
Zull, James, The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of
Learning, Stylus, 2002.