A bit of a strange post. But I’m constantly thinking about how poetic / interesting it is being able to code switch between different languages and how , a lot of times, different personalities are expressed in doing so. For ex, I feel much smoother when speaking Spanish but am a bit more clumsy in English and feel I can be more self-deprecating (in a good way).

In another vein, I work in a multilingual office (french, German, spanish, English), and there’s definitely a sort of politics to working in an environment like that. For ex, this one woman who is one of the few decently fluent in all of the offices languages , will only speak with people in the office in their native language ( sounds rather endearing but after a while I think it’s a bit of a superiority type thing). It’s interesting watching which language people slip into and with who in the office.

This is all a long-winded means of me asking if you guys have any recommended readings related to what has been mentioned above. Really just in love with language and am constantly perplexed haha

Hello!This is a theory I have, but have been unable to find any relevant research on.

It is already well-known that learning ASL speeds up speech development in children, and reduces frustration by allowing them to express themselves before they can fully verbalize what they wish to communicate. There is a big trend of "baby sign" right now, which is teaching some basic signs (not necessarily ASL, but can be) for words like milk, sleep, hungry, tired, more, etc. However, I have only ever seen this concepts applied to children learning their primary/only language from birth. Signing gets replaced as soon as child can verbalize, instead.

My belief is that teaching ASL to a child would aid them in picking up multiple languages, not simply their primary language, because they are given a common visual for the same words. This would work much like pointing to an object and saying the name in two languages (a common strategy), except it would be more effective since it can be used any time and can be used in the abstract (you don't need the object, or a picture of it, in front of you to talk about it), and for actions, feelings, or ideas, instead of just objects.

With a solid base in ASL, I believe it would work almost like live subtitles. If I do the sign for "Milk", which my child recognizes, I could say "Leche" or "Latte" or "Milk", and the understanding would still be there even if this is a totally new verbal word for the child. This would be equivalent, perhaps, to very effective TPR (total physical response) which is used for immersion teaching- except instead of acting things out, you already have a physical gesture the child recognizes instantly.

Working with older children who might have a grasp on more vocabulary of their target language, but have trouble understanding those words when used in sentences (I could read, write, and speak French, but for the life of me could not understand it when it was spoken to me- it all blurred together), they could listen while watching someone sign, and thus be able to differentiate the beginning/ending of words, pick out vocabulary they recognize more easily, etc.

I am not confident that this is correct, of course, since different languages have different grammar and syntax- and perhaps it would be too difficult to watch the words being signed in a different order than the spoken language. Buuuut then again, ASL doesn't have the same syntax/grammar as English, and often the translator signs and speaks simulta

Let's get to it.

If you’re not struggling, you’re not learning.

What’s your idea of learning to code?

Whip out your computer, type out a couple of cool commands. And bam - beauty personified.

Sorry, nope.

The process is at least 50% struggling especially at the beginning. And that’s how it should be. I’ve seen people quit programming because they don’t want to struggle with bugs. That’s like hating the gym because you don’t want workouts to hurt.

But the struggle is the way.

You don’t run from bugs;

You train yourself to find them quicker.

>A proficient programmer is an efficient detective of bugs.

If you’re feeling frustrated that things are not smooth, remember that this is how learning actually works.

Neuroscience research confirms that practice doesn’t simply make you perfect; it is deliberate practice to improve in a specific task that makes you better. And deliberate practice involves struggling.

So your mantra should be:You code.

You debug.

You struggle.

You overcome.

And you repeat.

If you’ve not struggled at all, you’re simply playing around. If you struggle all the time, then the next section is for you.

You’re not dumb, you’re learning at the wrong level.

Let’s start with a little analogy.

Imagine learning the English language (the language of exceptions :)

You start with a tutorial motivating you to learn to spell big words like ELEPHANT.

But it’s not working. After beating yourself for so long you decide to go to a lower tutorial and learn to spell smaller words like ANT.

But you still struggle.

So you conclude that you’re dumb because you lowered your tutorial level and still didn’t grasp anything.

But when a new teacher investigates why you’re struggling, they find out that you’ve been struggling because you actually don’t know the English alphabets.

Let’s bring this home to our coding world.

Some people jump into beginner tutorials to learn a React framework (ELEPHANT). Then realize it makes no sense so they move on to learn JavaScript (ANT). But that still makes no sense to them, so they quit.

But they’re simply working with something that’s too advanced.

Even introduction courses can be advanced because your thinking is not wired yet to programming in general. There’s no shame in finding something lower than Intro courses and starting from there to build up to Intro courses.

I don’t see this recommended enough but if you’re struggling with intro courses, you should consider Intro to programming

Imagine hear and see Husk speaking in german, japan and other languages in funny/vulgar scene. This character ask for it

Hey guys, I made a thread like this a couple of weeks ago, today I have some free time so shoot me any questions you would like to have answered about the neuroscience behind movement or training in general. I try to answer always with scientific proof or trends in either way in my head.

Here was the first discussion in case you missed it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/climbharder/comments/e9mog2/ama_neuroscientist_athletic_trainer_with_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Hope to find some interesting questions and have good discussions! Shoot me what you would like to know.

EDIT: I do not know where the downvotes are coming from, I am here willingly sharing my experience as a neurocentric coach, medical profession and Ph.D. student in neuroscience. It is free advice from different fields coming together. If you have any disagreements with what I write please feel free to engage in a discussion.

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I’m currently a Junior studying Psychology B.S. and Neuroscience B.S..I’m interested into going into a PhD program to study neuroscience. I’m currently volunteering in a psychology lab with human participants as well as neuroscience lab that works with rat models. I’m torn between working with animal models and human participants. I’m wondering what other labs and fields of neuroscience there are that use human participants? I am more interested in molecular and cellular neuroscience but I am still open to other fields as well.

I am interesting studying neuroscience, but the field is large and diverse. How did you determine which area to focus on? Did you explore several areas first, if so how?

Off the top of my head, I find the following to be interesting: modeling neural networks/systems, neural correlates of consciousness (especially perception, learning and memory), neuropharmacology (drugs!), and neurodegenerative/neurological disease.

I am a psychology student and have been drawn to neuroscience and I decided to simply see what I can start learning about on my own. This was way more fun than I anticipated, thanks to Robert Sapolsky. His book Behave is by far one of the best non fictions I have ever read. It is easy to understand, yet very detailed; very factual, yet surprisingly entertaining. It is a great introduction to neuroscience for those beginners like myself. Someone was asking for book recommendations and I suggested this one, but the books is so good I think it needed a post of its own for those eager new neuroscience students that may need direction.

I think this is interesting because serotonin typically (but not always) excites other neurons to increase brain activity, so there must be a unique signal transduction pathway for this inhibitory phenomenon.