This item is three years old but it provides a good statement of the sort of objection I need to meet if I am to say that what the author calls "brain based" research is to have any bearing on education. And I do want to say something like that. Not the left-brain right-brain nonsense or brain like a sponge theory discussed in this paper. No, but I want to say that the properties of neural networks can and should inform learning theory, yielding what I would call an associationist theory of learning. Nothing like that is discussed in this paper - too bad - but the first third of the paper makes it clear that I will have to go well beyond hand-waving and speculating to make nything like an associationist theory stick. Fair enough.
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