Companion Podcast

Program times:

0:00 Introduction

0:51 Transfer in learning

7:34 Blog items

11:11Emotion and stress

Run-time 18 minutes 42 seconds

How to convert to Dvorak

Instructions for how to tell your computer that your keyboard is now a Dvorak one http://www.dvorak-keyboard.com/convert.html

You can buy Dvorak keyboards, but if you don't want to have that expense, you can simply convert your existing keyboard. You may be able to purchase letters to cover those existing on your keyboard, depending on where you live, or you can do what I've done, which is to press letraset letters (easily purchased from your local stationery shop) onto the keys.

A basic course in learning to type for Dvorak http://gigliwood.com/abcd/abcd.html

References

    Transfer in learning

  1. Successful transfer
  2. Diamond, J. 1998. Guns, Germs, and Steel. London: Vintage.
  3. National Research Council, 1999. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. http://www.nap.edu

    4. Blog items

  4. April 29, 2006: subliminal advertising; human perception is better than we realize; genes affect whether children like to read
  5. April 26, 2006: a pretty woman affects men’s decision-making abilities; watching the brain "lose itself" in an activity
  6. April 25, 2006: 3 heads are better than one; the neural basis of 'choice deficit' disorders
  7. April 17, 2006: why failure breeds failure; birth order doesn't affect intelligence
  8. April 13, 2006: gender differences in how we manage anger; why racially diverse juries make better decisions than all-white juries
  9. April 06, 2006: why gender-related differences exist in certain psychiatric disorders; the "Aha!" experience

    10. Emotion and stress

  10. for reports on the direct effects of emotion and stress on memory and cognition, see my article on The role of emotion in memory and relevant news reports
  11. Immune function important for cognition
  12. laughter really is good for you
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1745532,00.html
  13. growth hormone and gender differences
    http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1426
  14. loneliness major risk factor in increasing blood pressure http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060328081644.htm
  15. Depressed older adults more likely to become cognitively impaired
  16. omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and personality http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060303205050.htm
  17. placebo effect http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.htm3?article_id=218392759
  18. The Naked Face, Annals of Psychology, August 5, 2002 http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_08_05_a_face.htm

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