Research Papers - Neuroscientific findings and Steiner education

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	September 2011	Reshaping a Brain through Play - An Interview with Ruth Codier Resch by Ruth Cody Resch, published in Volume 3, Number 3, (Winter 2011) of the American Journal of Play.	Play, infant mental health, speech, art, dance, sensory experience, non-verbal communication
	July 2011	The Symphony of Life Professor M. Moser, Medical University Graz, Austria - February 2008 N.B. Please see details of the ECSWE and Austrian Association of Waldorf Schools Council Meeting and Conference, Austria, 2011 for more information related to this topic & biographies of all speakers, including Professor M. Moser.	Biological Rhythms
	July 2011	Developing Circadian Rhythmicity in Infants Scott A. Rivkees, MD - March 2005, American Academy of Pediatrics N.B. Please see details of the ECSWE and Austrian Association of Waldorf Schools Council Meeting and Conference, Austria, 2011 for more information related to this topic.	Circadian Rhythmicity, Infants
	July 2011	Preterm infants born at less than 31 weeks' gestation have improved growth in cycled light compared with continuous near darkness by Brandon, PhD, Holditch-Davis, PhD and Belyea, PhD - Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 140 N.B. Please see details of the ECSWE and Austrian Association of Waldorf Schools Council Meeting and Conference, Austria, 2011 for more information related to this topic.	Preterm, Infants, Growth
	July 2011	Oscillations of heart rate and respiration synchronise during poetry recitation by Cysarz, von Bonin, Lackner, Heusser, Moser and Bettermann - AJP Heart Circ Physiological Society, August 2004 N.B. Please see details of the ECSWE and Austrian Association of Waldorf Schools Council Meeting and Conference, Austria, 2011 for more information related to this topic & biographies of all speakers, including Professor M. Moser.	Heart Rate, Respiration, Poetry
	July 2011	Wirkungen der Therapeutischen Sprachgestaltung auf Herzfrequenzvariablilitat und Befinden; Effects of speech therapy with poetry on heart rate variability and well-being by von Bonin, Fruwirth, Heusser, and Moser, 2001 N.B. Please see details of the ECSWE and Austrian Association of Waldorf Schools Council Meeting and Conference, Austria, 2011 for more information related to this topic & biographies of all speakers, including Professor M. Moser..	Heart Rate, Well-Being, Poetry
	July 2011	Work Stress in the construction industry Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria N.B. Please see details of the ECSWE and Austrian Association of Waldorf Schools Council Meeting and Conference, Austria, 2011 for more information related to this topic.	Work stress
	July 2011	Gesundheitliche Auswirkungen einer Massivholzausstattung in der Hauptschule Haus im Ennstal by Prof. M. Moser, Human Research 2010-Nov-Artikel-Holzwirkung-Schule-Haus.pdf Holz bremst Herz.pdf Holzklasse-wirkt-sich-positiv-auf-Gesundheit-aus.pdf N.B. Please see details of the ECSWE and Austrian Association of Waldorf Schools Council Meeting and Conference, Austria, 2011 for more information related to this topic & biographies of all speakers, including Professor M. Moser..
	February 2011	Document: Economic, neurobiological, and behavioral perspectives on building America's future workforce A growing proportion of the U.S. workforce will have been raised in disadvantaged environments that are associated with relatively high proportions of individuals with diminished cognitive and social skills. A cross-disciplinary examination of research in economics, developmental psychology, and neurobiology reveals a striking convergence on a set of common principles that account for the potent effects of early environment on the capacity for human skill development. by Eric I. Knudsen, James J. Heckman, Judy L. Cameron, and Jack P. Shonkoff	Child development, early experience, economic productivity, critical and sensitive periods, brain development
	September 2010	Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering. Christoff, K., Gordon, A. M., Smallwood, J., Smith, R., & Schooler, J. W. (2009). Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (21), 8719-8724.	Mind wandering, Default network, Neuroimaging
	September 2010	Applying neuroscientific findings to education: The good, the tough, and the hopeful. Christoff, K. (2008). Applying neuroscientific findings to education: The good, the tough, and the hopeful. Mind, Brain, and Education, 2 (2), 55-58.	Brain development, Neuroscience, Education, Multiple Intelligence, Neural plasticity, Cognitive Plasticity, Psychological functioning
	September 2010	Mind-wandering with and without awareness: An fMRI study of spontaneous thought processes. Smith, R., Keramatian, K., Smallwood, J., Schooler, J., Luus, B. and Christoff, K. (2006) Mind-wandering with and without awareness: An fMRI study of spontaneous thought processes. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Ed. R. Sun): 804-809. Vancouver: Erlbaum.	Mind Wandering, Goal directed thought, Spontaneous thought, Memory
	2000	Neural consequences of environmental enrichment van Praag H, Kempermann G, Gage. FH. . Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2000;1:191-198	Environmental, enrichment, neural development

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