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viernes, 4 de marzo de 2016
Importance of Neuroscience in Education
The Teachers College of Columbia University in New York, founded in 1887, has a tradition of innovation in education. Currently they are studying the electrical activity of the brain, to try and understand how people learn new languages, read, and solve problems.
Dr Karen Froud, who heads the Neurocognition Language Lab at Columbia University, has been working on how people learn to pronounce vowel sounds: “In fact, it’s not really a problem producing the sounds, it’s a problem perceiving the sounds. At the level of the brain we can see that.”
She notes that watching brain activity makes it possible for experts to guess what intellectual activity is occuring. Teachers from all kinds of institutions find these studies useful.
Amira Mandelbaum, who teaches in a therapeutic pre-school, told euronews: “I could understand, sort of, from an outsider’s point of view what was going on with the kids, I could see their behaviour and how they were interacting, but it was really hard for me to understand what was going on in their brains, what autistic children are experiencing. Just understanding that sometimes they need more oxygen to their brain, I’d be able to help them with deep breathing and that could regulate their system a little bit.”
Grace Chung is a student who plans to work with people who have had strokes. She said: “By studying the brain, I think I will be able to learn what part of the brain is causing certain problems my patients are having. I kind of see it as working with muscles; if you hurt your leg muscle, you would not train your arm muscles to work better. So if I know which muscle, or which part of the brain is causing the problem, I can target the skill better.”
For now, rather than showing how to treat disorders, neural research shows that any learning activity physically alters the brain.
The Neuroscience
Neuroscience, sometimes Referred to as Neural Science, is the study of the human nervous system, how the nervous systems works, how it is structured and how it Develops. Scientists Dedicate Themselves to the WHO study of neuroscience are Known as Neurscientists. The large majority of neuroscientists Their focus research on the brain and how it influences cognitive function and behavior. Neuroscience seeks not only to understanding how the nervous system functions under Normal Circumstances, But Also how the nervous system functions in single suffering from neurological, neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders.

, According to the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) the three main Objectives of neuroscience are to:
Understand the human brain and how it functions
Understand and describes how the Central nervous system (CNS) Develops, matures, and Maintains itself.
Analyze and Understand neurological and psychiatric disorders, and discover methods to Prevent or cure them.
Advances in technology combined With An Increased knowledge of how the brain and nervous system work lead to many new Have breakthroughs in field of neuroscience. Individuals with brain and spinal injuries trammatic cord, psychological disorders, and brain diseases are now the beneficiaries of unimaginable scientific Advancements eleven. What was eleven viewed purely as ficition science, is now a focus of mainstream scientific research and medical intervention.
Historically, neuroscience has-been classified as a subdivision of biology. Today it is an interdisciplinary science With other disciplines closely aligned Including psychology, medicine, linguistics, chemistry, philosophy, engineering, mathematics and even computer science. Some researcher still purport That is the same as neuroscience neurobiology neuroscience but encompasses much more.
Modern day neuroscientists are Involved in a greater scope of fields and study than ever before. Not only do they study cellular aspects of the nervious system, But Also functional, evolutionary, molecular, computational and medical aspects.
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