Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h6MJnu708081; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:49:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:49:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <165F276A.22E2E143.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2457] Re: Syntax and more. X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 863 Lines: 15 Dear Bonnie, Thanks for making the connecting link between speech and wriitng via notes, outline, etc. Makes sense. You picked up on my sloppy English--yes, children's whole neurons are mammothly pruned. Dendrites, which receive electro-chemicals from other neurons, are stimulated to make more spines, more connections, when learning increases. With learning the spine's shape changes and the transmission of information becomes easier. E.g., reading skill and fluency can increase with practice. Marian Diamond has written about the effects of stimulation on the mind in "Magic Trees of the Mind."(1998, also in paper) She works both in the lab and with refugee children, if anyone has a chance to hear her speak, go. I think it was last year I read that new neurons can grow in the hippocampus, but I can't remember about other areas. Andrea
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