Recently added articles from Roeper Review:
From the editor's desk.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Welcome to Volume 30, Issue 4 of the Roeper Review: a continued special issue on the cognitive neuroscience of giftedness. Guest edited by Layne Kalbfleisch, the project started with a collection in our summer issue, which included articles exploring the biological nature of ability and ...
Champion of cultural competence: an interview with Donna Y. Ford.(AN EVOLVING FIELD)(Interview)
Oct 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Donna Y. Ford, PhD, is Professor of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University where she teaches in the Department of Special Education. Donna has been a Professor of Special Education at the Ohio State University, an Associate Professor of ...
According to Jim: the flawed normal curve of intelligence.(Column)
Oct 01, 2008; ... An old philosopher once opined that "It is not the things we don't know that cause us so much trouble, it is the things we know that ain't so." So it is with the normal curve of intelligence. It is likely that on your bookshelf there are volumes of educational psychology or developmental ...
Introduction to the cognitive neuroscience of giftedness special issue, Part 2.(SPECIAL ISSUE: THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF GIFTEDNESS)(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Following the first issue on the cognitive neuroscience of giftedness that featured articles based directly on neuroimaging evidence, this volume presents large behavioral, neuropsychological, and theoretical paradigms of the cognitive neuroscience of giftedness. The two articles presented ...
Neurodevelopmental variation as a framework for thinking about the twice exceptional.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... At times it seems as if those of us in the general field of child development and developmental disorders are like blind men looking at elephants: we are ostensibly studying the same pachyderm yet we often come up with quite different impressions or highlight quite disparate facets ....
Neuropsychological studies of savant skills: can they inform the neuroscience of giftedness?(Clinical report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... There are some interesting patterns of similarity in findings pertaining to various dimensions of human development and ability. Some of these patterns derive from research into the nature of autism, savant skills, and high intellectual functioning (see Table 1 for a listing and ...
Gifted conferences.(Brief article)(Calendar)
Oct 01, 2008 ... National Association for Gifted Children 55th Annual October 29-November 2, 2008 Tampa, Florida http://www.nagc.org/CMS400Min/ index.aspx?id=35&annCon TAGT Professional Development for Educators & Parents November 12, 2008 ...
Murdoch, S. (2007). IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Murdoch, S. (2007). IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons (288 pp., $24.95, pb, ISBN: 978-0471699774) If you would like to know about the early history of testing for intelligence then this book has much to offer you. But keep your critical ...
From the editor's desk.
Jul 01, 2008; ... Welcome to Volume 30, Issue 3, of the Roeper Review. Thanks to Layne Kalbfleisch and the team of eminent scholars she assembled, this is a groundbreaking special issue on the cognitive neuroscience of giftedness. As guest editor, Layne marshaled the efforts of her colleagues and refined ...
Neuroscientific investigator of high mathematical ability: an interview with Michael W. O'Boyle.(AN EVOLVING FIELD)(Michael W. O'Boyle)(Interview)
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Michael W. O'Boyle, PhD, is professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Texas Tech University, and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. His research ...
According to Jim: democracy and gifted children.
Jul 01, 2008; ... It is both a blessing and a problem that our gifted students are growing up in a democracy. We can all enumerate the many blessings. Our freedoms allow us to speak freely and to explore ideas and try out new ways of doing things without having an oppressive government accuse us of being a ...
Introduction to the special issue on the cognitive neuroscience of giftedness.
Jul 01, 2008; ... Welcome to this special issue on the cognitive neuroscience of giftedness. The articles in this issue span from investigating relationships between brain structure and human intelligence, neuropsychological profiles of savants, functional brain patterns of mathematical processing in gifted ...
Getting to the heart of the brain: using cognitive neuroscience to explore the nature of human ability and performance.
Jul 01, 2008; ... <Pre>If neuroscientists are to prevent their work from beingmisrepresented [in this way], they must think more criticallyabout how their research is presented to educators and thepublic, and in particular they must be very cautious abouteven the most innocent ...
Brain imaging studies of intelligence and creativity: what is the picture for education?(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... As we enter the 21st century, neuroscience techniques will accelerate our understanding of how the brain works. Brain-imaging technologies are particularly helpful because they can identify brain areas, and the relationships among them, that underlie psychological processes central to ...
Mathematically gifted children: developmental brain characteristics and their prognosis for well-being.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... A selective review of the cognitive neuroscience literature (Butterworth, 1999; Dehaene, 1997) yields support for a neurobiological foundation to exceptional mathematical ability. One proposed brain characteristic of math giftedness is the enhanced development of the right cerebral ...
High abilities at fluid analogizing: a cognitive neuroscience construct of giftedness.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... For many educators in the field of gifted education, the most endearing characteristic of gifted children is their creative intelligence: their capacity for original explanations, insightful questions, elegant proofs, original creations, and quirky humor. Such a basket of cognitive ...
The world rests on a turtle, but on what does that turtle rest? A reply to Haier and Jung.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... According to Indian legend, there is a paradox whereby it is said that all the world rests upon a giant three-legged turtle. That answers the question of what is holding up the world. But then the question arises of what holds up the turtle. One answer, of course, is a turtle beneath the ...
Gifted conferences.(Calendar)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Conference of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA) September 16-20, 2008 Prague, Czech Republic http://www.echa2008.eu/ 2008 Gifted Education Conference September 25, 2008 Saint Paul, Minnesota ...
Inquiry education as a context for the experience of flow.(RECENT DISSERTATION RESEARCH IN GIFTED STUDIES)(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Inquiry pedagogy encompasses many strategies and approaches (e.g., student-centered learning, a participatory role among students and teachers in constructing the curriculum, fostering autonomy) that have been identified to increase intrinsic motivation and mastery goal-oriented approaches ...
Do gifted children prefer to work alone? A social-constructivist reexamination of the long-standing claim.(RECENT DISSERTATION RESEARCH IN GIFTED STUDIES)(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... The long-held notion that gifted students prefer to work alone is reported in several general textbooks on gifted children. However, studies addressing this issue are mixed and certainly not conclusive. Earlier studies disagree on whether those gifted children who claim a preference for ...