Cognitive Neuroscience and Education: Understanding the Teaching Learning Strategies, Learning Disabilities and Neuromyths

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Cognitive Neuroscience and Education: Understanding the Teaching Learning Strategies, Learning Disabilities and Neuromyths

Author Affiliations

¹ Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, INDIA

Res. J.Educational Sci., Volume 3, Issue (10), Pages 17-21, December,1 (2015)

Abstract

The present review paper provides an overview of the learning process and the impact of neuroscience to this. Cognitive neuroscience advances our knowledge on learning and has potential application to education. Previous research suggests that cognition is a fundamental learning process which adopts brain based strategies in learning. In this regard we briefly sketched the basic idea of brain and neurons. After that we have tried to explore how human organism learns in a neuro scientific way? The conducive learning environment and appropriate teaching- learning strategies also have been brought under the scanner. Finally we have tried to understand whether these strategies can solve the learning disabilities like Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and ADHD or not?

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[ref2] Cooper S.J., Donald O., Hebb’s synapse and learning rule: a history and commentary, Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 28, 851-874 (2005)

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[ref4] Squire L.R., Memory Systems of the Brain: A Brief History and Current Perspective”, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 82, 171-77 (2004)

[ref5] Cowan N., The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity, Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 24, 87-185 (2001)

[ref6] Shohamy D., Myers C.E., Kalanithi J. and Gluck M.A., Basal ganglia and dopamine contributions to probabilistic category learning, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 32, 219-236 (2008)

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[ref14] Goswami U., Neuroscience and education: from research to practice?, Nature Reviews Neuroscience (Nature Publishing Group), 7(5), 406–411 (2006)