Front cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A case for educational neuroscience -- Caveats and disclaimers -- 1 Why Educational Neuroscience? -- Education neuroscientific research questions -- Limits to educational neuroscience -- 2 Neuroimaging Technologies -- 3 Learning and Memory -- Individual brains -- Hebb's model of learning through synaptic plasticity -- Memory -- 4 Working Memory and Intelligence -- Working memory -- Attention -- Intelligence -- Gifted and talented pupils -- Sex differences -- Genetics of intelligence -- IQ scores as a measure of social evolution -- 5 Creativity and Imagination -- Fluid analogizing -- Creative intelligence -- Imagination -- 6 Socializing, Emotion and Motivation -- Mirror neurons and socializing -- Emotion -- Motivation and self-esteem -- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- 7 Language and Literacy -- Language -- Storytelling -- Literacy -- Dyslexia -- Second language learning -- 8 Numeracy and Mathematics -- Arithmetic -- Statistics -- Fractions -- Algebra and geometry -- Mathematical thinking -- Mathematical creativity -- 9 Arts Curriculum -- Music -- Visual arts -- 10 A Future for Educational Neuroscience -- Schools of the future -- An agenda for educational neuroscience -- Last word -- Endnotes -- References and Further Reading -- Index -- Back cover.