Tuesday, May 17, 2011

mark fenske

Mark Fenske, co-author of The Winner's Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success.  We'll explore the current scientific progress on understanding the brain and cognitive processes, how that is informing psychology, and what the implications for education might be.


MARK FENSKE, PhD, a neuroscientist and former faculty member at Harvard Medical School, is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at the University of Guelph. His research combines neuroimaging and studies of behavior to examine how the brain’s attention and emotion systems
can enhance performance. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.


everytime you watch others doing something - you take yourself into the mode of doing it yourself.

we can learn a lot about ourselves by watching other people

physical exercise critical to brain function