… Who never had a report card with the mention “Could perform better ?” because, clearly, one did not get exhausted for performing as well as (if not better than) others ? Or how many times did you answer (vageuly […]
An issue in Science Daily dated March 12, 2011, did somehow surprise me… It is called “Could Giftedness Be Linked to Prenatal Exposure of Higher Levels of Hormones?“ The article relates the findings of a researcher at the University of […]
John Geake – Université d’Oxford works on cognitive neurosciences, so that learning (and teaching) methods can be improved. On the site of the University of Brookes, a list of his communications. The following are the ones which I much appreciated […]
The sole psychological approach of giftedness was not satisfying for me. I needed to understand the cerebral “mechanics” of giftedness. The University of Mc Gill runs a very interesting site regarding the brain : “The Brain from top to bottom“. […]
This is what some electronic games promise. A very recent article in Scientific American (by Andrea Kuszewski) says it doesn’t work and recommands in the contrary to just do some efforts. As an epigraph a quote from Einstein (Albert) : […]
(in French) One of the very first sources I have refered to : , (State of the art of the research undertaken about children known as “gifted”) – study run by UMR (Research Unit) 8605 – CNRS (French National Scientific […]
Talent may be innate, while innate is not enough for being talented. Studies run on neurogenesis show that studying (working out a point) can create new neurones in the part of “executive functions” of the brain (frontal cortex). In an […]