Bridges over troubled waters: education and cognitive neuroscience.

A bridge over troubled water: reconsolidation as a link between cognitive and neuroscientific memory research traditions.

There are two research traditions on dynamic memory processes. In cognitive psychology, the malleable nature of long-term memory has been extensively documented. Distortions, such as the misinformation effect or hindsight bias, illustrate that memories can be easily changed, often without their owner taking notice. On the other hand, effects like hypermnesia demonstrate that memory might be mor...

Cognitive Neuroscience: implications for education?

Research into the functioning of the human brain, particularly during the past decade, has greatly enhanced our understanding of cognitive behaviours which are fundamental to education: learning, memory, intelligence, emotion. Here, we argue the case that research findings from cognitive neuroscience hold implications for educational practice. In doing so we advance a bio-psycho-social position...

Cognitive Neuroscience and Mathematics Education

This article is primarily addressed to cognitive scientists and neuroscientists interested in education. For quite some time mathematics education has seemed an area in which cognitive neuroscience might make important contributions. This has not happened: studies have been large in number but small in impact, and education has been influenced more by misunderstandings and over-simplifications ...

A Bridge Too Far – Revisited: Reframing Bruer’s Neuroeducation Argument for Modern Science of Learning Practitioners

In Education and the Brain: A Bridge Too Far, John Bruer argues that, although current neuroscientific findings must filter through cognitive psychology in order to be applicable to the classroom, with increased knowledge the neuroscience/education bridge can someday be built. Here, we suggest that translation cannot be understood as a single process: rather, we demonstrate that at least four d...

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