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"Mind mapping can be used to illustrate sophisticated levels of understanding"
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"Mind mapping can be used to illustrate sophisticated levels of understanding"
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A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.
Buzan[1] claims that the mind map is a vastly superior note taking method because it does not lead to a "semi-hypnotic trance" state induced by the other note forms. Buzan also argues that the mind map utilizes the full range of left and right human cortical skills, balances the brain, taps into the alleged 99% of your unused mental potential, as well as intuition (which he calls "superlogic"). However, scholarly research suggests that such claims may actually be marketing hype based on misconceptions about the brain and the cerebral hemispheres. Critics argue that hemispheric specialization theory has been identified as pseudoscientific when applied to mind mapping.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map
