PRINCIPLE 1 UNIQUENESS

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Annenberg Learner. (n.d.). Different brains. Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections. https://www.learner.org/series/neuroscience-in-the-classroom/different-brains/

Annenberg Learner. (n.d). Different learners, different minds. Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections. https://www.learner.org/series/neuroscience-in-the-classroom/different-learners-different-minds/

Barlow, F. K. (2019). Nature vs. nurture is nonsense: On the necessity of an integrated genetic, social, developmental, and personality psychology. Australian Journal of Psychology, 71(1), 68-79. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajpy.12240

Beaty, R. E., Seli, P., & Schacter, D. L. (2019). Network neuroscience of creative cognition: mapping cognitive mechanisms and individual differences in the creative brain. Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 27, 22-30. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cobeha.2018.08.013

Bjorklund, D. F., & Causey, K. B. (2017). Children's thinking: Cognitive development and individual differences. Sage Publications.

Bogdan, R., Hyde, L. W., & Hariri, A. R. (2013). A neurogenetics approach to understanding individual differences in brain, behavior, and risk for psychopathology. Molecular psychiatry, 18(3), 288-299. https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2012.35

Boogert, N. J., Madden, J. R., Morand-Ferron, J., & Thornton, A. (2018). Measuring and understanding individual differences in cognition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1756), Artículo 20170280.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1098%2Frstb.2017.0280

CAST (2013). Addressing the variability of learners in Common Core-aligned assessments: Policies, practices, and universal design for learning. Policy Statement. Wakefield, MA: Author.  

Circlvideos. (2012, January 30). Todd Rose: Variability matters [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WClnVjCEVM

Conexiones: The Learning Sciences Platform. (2019, September 24). Principle 1: Uniqueness (Human Brains are Unique), by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, Ph.D. [Video]. YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw-d3CGlNx0 

de Manzano, Ö., & Ullén, F. (2018). Same genes, different brains: neuroanatomical differences between monozygotic twins discordant for musical training. Cerebral Cortex, 28(1), 387-394. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhx299

Desplats, P. A. (2014). Perinatal programming of neurodevelopment: Epigenetic mechanisms and the prenatal shaping of the brain. En Antonelli, M. (Ed.), Perinatal programming of neurodevelopment (pp. 335-361). Springer.

Foulkes, L., & Blakemore, S. J. (2018). Studying individual differences in human adolescent brain development. Nature Neuroscience, 21(3), 315–323. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-018-0078-4

Gu, J., & Kanai, R. (2014). What contributes to individual differences in brain structure?. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 8, Artículo 262. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00262

Hills, T. T. (2019). Neurocognitive free will. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1908), 20190510. ree will. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0510

Kanai, R., & Rees, G. (2011). The structural basis of inter-individual differences in human behaviour and cognition. Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 12(4), 231-242. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3000

Khan, S. (2015, November). Let’s teach for mastery, not for test scores! [Video]. TED Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/sal_khan_let_s_teach_for_mastery_not_test_scores?language=en

Kitayama, S., & Salvador, C. E. (2017). Culture embrained: Going beyond the nature-nurture dichotomy. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(5), 841-854. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1745691617707317

Liao, X., Cao, M., Xia, M., & He, Y. (2017). Individual differences and time-varying features of modular brain architecture. Neuroimage, 152, 94-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.066

Miller, M. B., Donovan, C. L., Bennett, C. M., Aminoff, E. M., & Mayer, R. E. (2012). Individual differences in cognitive style and strategy predict similarities in the patterns of brain activity between individuals. Neuroimage, 59(1), 83-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.060

Mueller, S., Wang, D., Fox, M. D., Yeo, B. T., Sepulcre, J., Sabuncu, M. R., ... & Liu, H. (2013). Individual variability in functional connectivity architecture of the human brain. Neuron, 77(3), 586-595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2012.12.028

Nido, G. S., Ryan, M. M., Benuskova, L., & Williams, J. M. (2015). Dynamical properties of gene regulatory networks involved in long-term potentiation. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 8, Artículo 42. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2015.00042

Parasuraman, R., & Jiang, Y. (2012). Individual differences in cognition, affect, and performance: Behavioral, neuroimaging, and molecular genetic approaches. Neuroimage, 59(1), 70-82. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.neuroimage.2011.04.040

Stern, E. (2017). Individual differences in the learning potential of human beings. npj Science of Learning, 2(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-016-0003-0

Ross Schools. (2012, Deceber 5). Todd Rose: Myth of the average - Variability matters / Ross Institute Summer Academy 2012 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVbFGjpfMUg

TEDx Talks. (2013, June 19). The Myth of Average: Todd Rose at TEDxSonomaCounty. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eBmyttcfU4

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