Brain Science Live #5

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

Ginger Campbell, MD

Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Neuroscience, Medicine, Brain, Science

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this month's Brain Science Live (recorded via Facebook Live) I talked about BS 145 with Dr. Maryanne Wolf who has spent her career studying what happens in the brain when we learn to read.

I got a lot of feedback about this episode and I respond to it here.

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0:00.0	Okay, this is today's brain science live, and I'm Ginger Campbell, the hope of brain science,
0:12.6	a podcast that explores how discoveries in neuroscience are unraveling the mystery of how our brains make us human.
0:22.3	So before I get started, I want to mention that if you want to go on the trip to Australia in 2019,
0:31.6	which is going to be May 20th through 29th, then you will need to start signing up. I accidentally announced in
0:41.8	episode 148 that the deadline was October 1st, which is a few days ago, that was wrong. What I meant
0:49.6	to say, and I had a miscommunication with my new editor, I meant to say that you can start putting down your deposit on October 1st.
0:59.4	So there's still plenty of time to sign up.
1:01.8	I'm hoping to get about 16 people.
1:04.4	So if you want more information about that trip,
1:06.9	be sure to email me at Brain Science Podcast at gmail.com.
1:12.8	Also, I want to mention that our sponsor is The Great Courses Plus, which is a great way to learn from experts in a wide variety of fields.
1:25.0	And if you want to give that a try for free for a month, the link is
1:29.2	the great Scoursesplus.com forward slash ginger. Okay. So today we are going to be talking about
1:38.3	episode 1.45, which was about reading in the brain and an interview with Dr. Marianne Wolf, who I actually interviewed
1:48.6	on the show way back in 2008. I think it was episode 29. Anyway, I got quite a bit of feedback about this
1:57.0	episode. People seemed to be sort of upset about a couple of issues and I'm going to
2:04.5	address those today. One thing I want to mention is that this episode was not intended to be a
2:13.9	very technical episode and I think people didn't realize that, and that was kind of my fault.
2:20.3	One of the key ideas that we talked about was that reading is a cultural invention.
2:28.1	It's not like language, which we are sort of hardwired to learn.
2:33.7	It's a cultural invention, and so it doesn't not come naturally, and we can't assume that children are going to be good readers without help. And there were people who wrote to me who seemed to disagree with this. They pointed to methods like Montessori, which seemed to be based on the
2:52.6	idea that you could learn to read naturally. And there are a few children that learn to read
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