if you can’t measure it, does it count? dr. fiona kerr
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If You Can’t Measure It, Does It Count?
Dr. Fiona Kerr
Dendritic growth
(Image: Corel, JL, The postnatal development of the human cerebral cortex. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press: 1975)
Neurogenesis and Stimulation
Face to face
•SPINDLE NEURON
•combines emotion, belief and judgement in 1/20th second
•Empathy and trust established
MIRROR NEURON
•Act before judgement
•Subsets
•Fire in team bonding
•Top leaders 3x effect
OSCILLATION OF NEURONS
•Attune physical coordination
• creates dynamic resonance
•Motor neuron system triggers dopamine
The Brain And Interaction
Collaboration
• Increases trust, empathy and humour
• Lowers resistance to ideas
• Information absorbed, nimble responses
•Creative and innovative ideas
Exercise
Reflection
Sleep
Learning
Active vs passive•Memory recall much higher if participatory
Senses designed to work together•Ie images with text•Remember text least, verbal next and visual most•Brain pays more attention and codes info more robustlySmell goes straight to amygdala
Memory
Repetition
TimeInterconnection
Creativity
Diversity
empathy
Space
individual and group activities as well as activities requiring divergent and convergent thinking require different spaces
Space
• soft factors of colour and materials
• how the space facilitates or inhibits varying needs for communication, information sharing and collaboration, interaction or privacy and quiet reflection (Haner, 2005).
pay attention to •the proximity of people and spaces to each other•the style of the spaces and their soft environments and technological tools•the building and layout of the physical environment.
This is one of the major elements which have a bearing on the processes of innovation and creativity.
‘hybrid infrastructures’
It affects the flow and interconnection of people, and the performance of creative and innovative processes(Bakke & Yttri, 2003).
Art and PaintingBeing part of an art group increases well-being in the five cognitive domains:•Interest
•sustained attention
•Pleasure
•self-esteem
•normalcy
Neuro-aesthetic effect eliciting and contributing to empathy
Acting& storytelling
Increases cognitive affect
Uses 'intentional learning' so recruits frontal cortex
Specific skills include word recall, comprehension, word generation & problem solving
Also self confidence and personal growth
Singing
• Does same as acting but at lower level, except for self confidence and personal growth which is the same level
• Has some neuro aesthetic aspects of eliciting empathy and pleasure
Dancing
Combines all three aspects:•Memory training (improves hippocampus)•Social networking•Physical activity - cognitive skills improve
Over time greater everyday competence and health, independence and life contentment
Photography
Particularly improves: episodic memoryVisio-spacial processing
Richer than word recognition or puzzles
Looking for meaning recruits frontal cortex
Combine with handicraft.
Processing speed increases most with both through
novelty, increasing cognitive demands and creative
requirements
Highest when in a social group
Combining