Brain Research and Information Network (BRAINetwork USM)

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https://brainetwork-usm.com/brainhome/

Who are we ? We are a research group focusing on the human brain and mind, specifically on neurocognition, learning and memory. We may be educators, neuroscientists, graduate students, computer scientists or en...

BRAINetwork telah mengadakan pameran Festival Minda di Tadika Homalee pada 11 ogos 2016 sempena Sambutan Hari Tadika Sedunia.

The Malaysia Mental Literacy Movement (MMLM) organised the 12th Malaysia
Festival of the Mind, a two-day even held in Perak. The events are jointly organised with Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) The Festival will see a number of talks, demonstrations and exhibitions organised to create awareness regarding training the brain
and enhancing mental literacy.

Date (Day) : 23 & 24 July 2016 (Saturday & Sunday)
Venue : Dewan Tan Sri Loh Boon Siew
Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, Penang Campus
77, Lorong Lembah Permai Tiga, 11200 Tanjong Bungah, P. Pinang

The Malaysia Mental Literacy Movement (MMLM) organised the 12th Malaysia Festival of the Mind, a two-day even held in Perak. The events are jointly organised with Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) The Festival will see a number of talks, demonstrations and exhibitions organised to create awareness regarding training the brain
and enhancing mental literacy.

Date (Day) : 16 & 17 July 2016 (Saturday & Sunday)
Venue : Dewan Tun Dr Ling Liong S*k
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar, Perak Campus
Jalan Universiti, Bandar Barat, 31900 Kampar, Perak Darul Ridzuan

BRAINetwork recently creating this learning material with and for the indigenous Jahai community of Peninsular Malaysia. Today also marks the 15th anniversary of the United Nation's


'International Mother Language Day has been observed every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. The date represents the day in 1952 when students demonstrating for recognition of their language, Bangla, as one of the two national languages of the then Pakistan, were shot and killed by police in Dhaka, the capital of what is now Bangladesh.

Languages are the most powerful instruments of preserving and developing our tangible and intangible heritage. All moves to promote the dissemination of mother tongues will serve not only to encourage linguistic diversity and multilingual education but also to develop fuller awareness of linguistic and cultural traditions throughout the world and to inspire solidarity based on understanding, tolerance and dialogue'

Tri-lingual Learning: Bahasa Jahai, Bahasa Malaysia and English BRAINetwork and the Orang Asli of Kampung Chuweh have been working together over the past few weeks to create a 1 to 10 counting chart. A counting chart, a simple and basic enough idea, but with a ...

Credit to the hardworking students pictured below who are currently working on BRAINetwork's Curriculum-in-a-box. The Curriculum-in-a-box, which we previously and successfully implemented in an Orang Asal community, will this time used to assist a local community affected by the recent flooding. We hope this will prove an effective way to provide some form of rehabilitation to communities in disaster areas, such as those suffered across the east coast of Malaysia as a result of the recent flooding.

Phase Three of the TUT-USM Summer School Program The group continued their summer school journey as they arrived in Penang for Phase Three of the TUT-USM Summer School program. The Summer School participants arrived in the recently established TU...

The TUT-USM Summer School Programme, through the eyes of Rahim Munna, one of the programme's proud participants.

My Summer School Journey: Rahim Munna The following piece was written by Rahim Munna, a proud participant of our recent TUT-USM Global Summer School Programme. Rahim is a PhD candidate, author and specialist in Criminology. Rahim provi...

Check out our lastest blog detailing how BRAINetworks Pusat Minda Mesra prepares for its second year with the help of students participating in the elective class, Fundamentals of Neurocognitive Science
http://brainetwork-usm.com/2014/12/21/brainetworks-pusat-minda-mesra-prepares-for-its-second-year/

Students visit Orang Asal community, RPS Air Banun and Chuweh, on the 12/12/14

Working with the Orang Asal to set up a community garden in the Belum-Temenggor Forest Reserve.

The First Mile Project in Chuweh: the beginnings of a fruitful future The First Mile Project recently began developing its second community garden in the Belum-Temenngor Forest Reserve, this time, in the indigenous village of Chuweh. The BRAINetwork team previously c...

Interested in Archery???

Brain@work ARCHERS Welcome to the BRAINetwork Archery Club The BRAINetwork Archery Club [ Brain@work ARCHERS ] is organised by the BRAINetwork Centre for Neurocognitive Science, School of Health Sciences, Universiti...

Here's a blog detailing Phase Two of our inaugural TUT-USM Summer School programme. Phase two was the data collection phase of the programme, which took place in the Belum-Temenggor Forest Reserve. Sorry for the delay getting this online, we hope that it brings back some fond memories to all those involved in the progamme. The phase 3 blog will be uploaded in a few days.

Phase Two of the TUT-USM Summer School program in the Belum-Temenggor Forest Reserve Phase Two of the TUT-USM Summer School program brought its participants from Kota Bharu to Lake Banding in the Belum-Temenggor Forest Reserve. The purpose of this trip was for the TUT and USM stude...

First Mile Project: Four day visit to Kampung Chuweh

The First Mile Project - Services for Survival: Training of proactive wilderness first responders in Kampung Chuweh in the Belum-Temenngor Rainforest from the 19th-21st October 2014

Here's the video for Phase 3 of our TUT-USM Summer School which took place in TUT Penang. It began with the students analyzing the data that they collected using the Community Sustainability Assessment tool in 10 indigenous villages in the Belum-Temenggor Forest Reserve in the previous phase of the program.

In Phase 3, the students identified the community's needs and prepared proposals for various projects which would address the needs of the Orang Asal communities. The TUT students used their engineering backgrounds to try develop projects using technology which could create sustainable solutions to empower the Orang Asal to have better ways of dealing with the challenges that daily life in the rainforest presents (more about their projects in a future blog).

Phase 3 finished with a student forum and a closing ceremony which was attended by Prof. Dr. Mitsuteru Inoue, Executive Trustee, Vice President, Education Affairs of Toyohashi University of Technology and Prof Dato' Dr. Ahmad Shukri Mustapa Kamal, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic & International Affairs, of Universiti Sains Malaysia.

On behalf of BRAINetwork, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who participated in our inaugural Summer School program, making it such an enjoyable and memorable experience.

TUT-USM Summer School 2014 Phase 3

Here's a short clip showcasing Phase 2 of our summer school program which took place in the Belum-Temenggor Forest Reserve.

The song playing over the pictures was chosen for it’s fitting lyrics, “together we stand strong, our hands can change the world” and “together we are strong, our minds can change the world”. This reflects USM, TUT and the Orang Asal coming together, combining their knowledge and expertise to create sustainable solutions together. The song also has a second important message, that is, although we differ, in our culture, tradition, lifestyle and backgrounds, at a biological level, “we are all the same”, we are all human beings, which is important to remember and recognize considering the constant stigmatization and racism that the Orang Asal experience in society today.

TUT-USM Summer School 2014 Phase 2 Toyohashi University of Technology and Universiti Sains Malaysia's Summer School Program 2014 Phase 2

Yesterday a team of TUT-USM Summer School students returned to the rainforest to plant the Merbau trees, that they selected with their Japanese partners from TUT just over two weeks ago. The students travelled by boat to plant the Merbau trees, which we hope, will symbolize the blossoming relationship between TUT and USM, and our summer school program together. While there, we also discussed some future plans with the head of the village and enjoyed playing some games with Chuweh’s children.

PART TWO of the pictures

Yesterday a team of TUT-USM Summer School students returned to the rainforest to plant the Merbau trees, that they selected with their Japanese partners from TUT just over two weeks ago. The students travelled by boat to plant the Merbau trees, which we hope, will symbolize the blossoming relationship between TUT and USM, and our summer school program together. While there, we also discussed some future plans with the head of the village and enjoyed playing some games with Chuweh’s children.

PART ONE of the pictures

Phase 3 of the Programme takes place at the TUT-Penang Campus in Cantonment Road. Phase 3 is a student-directed, project-based component which facilitated by graduate students of both USM and TUT.

Faculty members of TUT and BRAINetwork USM will act as advisors for this component of the programme.

Phase 2 of the programme takes part in the Belum-Temenggor Rainforest Complex at Pulau Banding, Grik, Perak. The students introduced to the BRAINetwork Ecovillage at RPS Air Banun which is part of the First Mile Project funded by the USM RUC grant, Mattel Children’s Foundation and Dana Inovasi USM. The First Mile project has five components and the TUT students exposed to these components and hopefully structure their project
proposals around these issues.
Students undergo a curriculum that involves:
1. Understanding the ethical, legal and social implications of research with indigenous communities.
2. Carrying out a needs assessment and sustainability evaluation of the communities via the Community Sustainability Assessment [CSA] tool in three areas:
a. Ecological sustainability
b. Social sustainability
c. Spiritual sustainability
3. Conducting the CSA in pairs, consisting of a USM graduate student, a TUT graduate student.

Presentation Day in TUT-USM Penang

Rahim and Naoki have spent the past two weeks working on a project to introduce new/improved technology to the Orang Asal (indigenous people of Malaysia). Here they are presenting their innovative idea of a Rotatable Bamboo Solar Panel System which will increase the efficiency of solar panels to provide extra energy within the indigenous communities of Belum-Temenggor Rainforest

A bright beginning, check out our latest blog detailing the first phase of BRAINetwork's inaugural USM-TUT Summer School

summerschoolblog.com We welcomed Toyohashi University of Technology for the official opening ceremony of our inaugural USM-TUT Summer School programme with a cultural night last Monday, 7th September 2014. The celebrat...

Phase 1 of the TUT-USM Summer School Program

Some snaps of BRAINetwork's collaboration with the Japanese university, Toyohashi University of Technology's arrival in Kota Bharu as part of our inaugural Summer School program, blog to follow in the morning.

Selamat Menyambut Hari Malaysia from the BRAINetwork team!

We are currently engaged in a Summer School program in Penang, which is a collaboration between Universiti Sains Malaysia and Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan). Summer School students from USM and TUT standing together this morning for the Malaysian national anthem.