Abstract

GAGO GALVAGNO, Lucas G.  and  ELGIER, Ángel M.. Building bridges between neuroscience and education. Neurosciences’ contributions, limitations and future directions in the education field. Psicogente [online]. 2018, vol.21, n.40, pp.476-494. ISSN 0124-0137.  https://doi.org/10.17081/psico.21.40.3087.

Neurosciences are a set of disciplines which aims to research the nervous system, focusing on brain functioning in relation with our behaviors. Neurosciences not only address the neurobiological issues of behavior but also rely on cognitive psychology, linguistics, anthropology and artificial intelligence. Neuroeducation, also called educational neuroscience, is an expanding discipline that aims to study brain development and its neurobiological foundations by optimizing teaching and learning process. Through analyzing some classic and current contributions of the neurosciences to the educational area, this paper proposes to review neurosciences’ contribution to the educational field, establishing at the same time critical and future ways to get even closer relations between them. Then, we conclude that although the neuroeducation contributions are varied and we expect advances in this area derived from new technologies, we must be cautious and critical when analyzing or putting them into practice, since research must be generated with greater ecological validity, in educational environments with human beings with analysis at different levels, without ignoring the interdiscipline.

Keywords : neuroscience; neuroeducation; education; learning.

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